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Wowhead's 2018 Year in Review and Happy New Year

envoyé 2018-12-31 à 15:35 par perculia

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Our Class Guide Writers were kept busy in 2018! Even before Battle for Azeroth, our writers were updating and perfecting their guides to the Mage Tower Challenges--extremely popular content at the end of Legion. When the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch hit, we went more in-depth than ever before on our class guides, with sections devoted to Mythic+ tips, boss strategies, and ways to improve. We included data from sites such as Bloodmallet and Warcraft Logs to enhance our explanations, on pages such as Azerite Traits and raid tips.

While we're thrilled by the reception of our class guides and datamining in Battle for Azeroth, we can't forget our roots--players sharing information on curious funny things they've found around Azeroth. The spirit of this is manifested in the WoW Secret Finding Discord, a community that works together to solve the secrets of Azeroth. The Discord team published their Hivemind Guide on Wowhead, and earlier in the year, the Wowhead team published a series of guides to hidden secrets from all expansions.

With the launch of a new expansion, new player guides are key. We created a series of "If you Quit in X" guides for every expansion, so you can get right up to speed and hopefully feel less lost!

A new expansion also means new types of guides to write! Battle for Azeroth saw the launch of our Warfront, Island, and Azerite guide sections.

The community creates many sophisticated addons and tools, designed to help players get even better at WoW. Throughout 2018, we created a number of guides to these player-created tools, such as Raidbots, Weak Auras, and Elv UI, and set up a new Addons and Tools category to house all these guides.

With the constant messages of support for guides, we revamped both the guide homepages as well as search results for guides. We hope that with both UI updates, the site provides you with more-targeted suggestions for the content you want to see, instead of being presented with hundreds of options!

this postWowhead at BlizzConall the panelsWowhead PartyWowhead merchandiseMethodDarriestage show and autographsWoW What's Next PanelWoW Q&ABlizzCon 2018 Interview with Ion Hazzikostas and Chris RobinsonClassic WoW Will Have Staged Content UnlocksUser ContributionsWowhead Team MessagesAnshlun (News and Guides)And another year has passed. What a crazy year 2018 was, from the end of Legion and BFA alpha to the launch of patch 8.1, it was a rollercoaster.
I'd like to thank everyone for their support throughout the year, everything we do here is to provide the best possible content and the latest news for you, and we wouldn't be here if it weren't for your continuing support.
This year we were able to launch our more in-depth class guides for BFA, and I'm very pleased with the results that hundreds of hours of hard work turned into. For 2019 we already have many new improvements and additions to those guides, so stay tuned!
I'd also like to thank all our partners and writers, it was amazing working together with everyone, and I'm delighted with the content we were able to deliver this year. Hopefully, we can do even better in 2019!
May everyone, their families, and friends have a happy New Year, may 2019 be the best possible year for you!Dirtside (Gnomish Engineer)Dirtside has not been seen or heard from recently due to his grand adventure in the depths of Wowhead's gnomish innards. We all wish for his safe return and hope he doesn't get transformed into a penguin.Erorus (Goblin Engineer)Hello again! I had to take a short break from Azeroth, and even from Wowhead, just after patch 7.1.5. Fortunately, I logged out at an inn, and was able to come back well rested just in time for patch 8.0.1. In our time apart, both myself and the Wowhead team continued to learn and grow, and I've never been more proud to be a part of our entire team bringing Wowhead to you. We have a wide variety of skills across site development as well as handling WoW data, and plans for lots of great things ahead.

Launching Wowhead Classic was a huge project for us, and while I'm impressed with all the updates we've made, we have lots more to do in the coming year. Maintaining a completely separate set of game rules and data, while continuing to offer our vast resources of comments, guides, screenshots, and more from the Live site is a crossover that's similar to, but different from, our PTR and Beta support. There are some unique challenges and diving into some pretty old code to make everything work. :) And I can't forget our efforts to bring back Thottbot comments for Wowhead Classic, which was a new challenge with huge scale as well. Also, we're planning on supporting localized game data for Classic (of course), which we haven't had to do anywhere but Live before. Looking forward to working on more Wowhead Classic stuff in 2019!

It's also been my privilege to build exciting tools for the WoW community. Some of it is behind-the-scenes maintenance, like moving all of our Battle.net API calls to Blizzard's new API system. Some of it involves updates to our existing tools, like keeping the Character Planner and World Quests tools up-to-date. Some work involves updating some older tools with BFA mechanics, like the Warfront and Faction Assault tracking on Today in WoW. But some of the most satisfying stuff to work on is releasing brand new tools, like the Quest Completion Tracker, the Azerite Power Finder, and one more new thing that I can't yet mention but is so close to done!

Finally, while I'm here, let me remind you about this goblin's favorite bug reporting format. When something blows up (and, with Goblin Engineering, it's always when, not if..), I like to see "When I do X, I expect to get Y, instead I get Z." All 3 parts help get things back together again. "When I use Déchiqueteur dimensionnel - Zone 52, I expect to go to the transporter pad in Area 52, instead I'm 250 yards above Area 52..."Jerek (Lead Developer)As always I'm grateful to the users who leave comments and screenshots to help their fellow Azerothians, or even those who just visit the site looking for an answer to that confusing quest. But in particular I want to say a thank you to all the users who help contribute data! Battle for Azeroth is just kicking off and sending data for the site helps greatly, especially with the popular Today in WoW section on the homepage. We couldn't do it without you!Nery (News and Guides)I would like to thank the community for such an incredible year working at Wowhead. Although I was already working with articles since last year, I officially joined the news team in March of this year, and this has been so exciting to cover - going from datamining the BfA Alpha and Beta to covering many of the secrets within the expansion, it was definitely an experience that I will cherish.

My favorite content to cover was definitely one of the most recent ones, the hunt for The Hivemind! I've always been drawn to secrets and exploration in all games I play, and WoW is no exception. I would like to extend my special thanks to the WoW Secret Finding Discord staff team, including Super, xisthena, Tink, TaylahJayne, Cougarlee and everyone else - Working with you guys has been a blessing, and I can't wait to engage in uncovering more secrets with you and the community in 2019!

I would also like to thank everyone that I have personally interacted with this year - both in-game, on social media or Discord. WoW has one of the most passionate communities out there, and I love receiving all your feedback and ways to improve our news posts and guides.

And lastly, my final thank you goes to our content team - Perculia, Anshlun, Archimtiros, Ketsuki, Squishei and Stiven. Thanks to you guys, I've found a place to belong and work with all of my passion and drive on something I really love. I will never be able to repay all that you have done to me. Thank you, thank you so much.

I'm definitely looking forward to bring the community even more content in 2019. Have an awesome and safe new year!Perculia (Site Director)Thanks to all of our readers and supporters for making 2018 great on Wowhead even through all of Azeroth's ups and downs!

Our dev team has done a fabulous job of keeping the site current to best-serve player interests, and I'm especially proud of the Wowhead Twitch Extension Overlay and Quest Completion Tracker. Expect to see more tracking tools in that style in 2019! Classic Wowhead is another project many of us on the team feel passionately about, and we can't wait to develop in further in 2019. (Plus, we're all excited there are no Classic PTR updates.) We've also adjusted to the breakneck PTR pace introduced in Legion--I'm proud of how we've balanced PTR updates with new features, site improvements, and managing un-fun things like technical debt. It was great getting to tour Blizzard with the whole team earlier this year, especially getting an impromptu picture by the Orc statue with Mike Morhaime.

Here's a fun datamining story: During our annual staff meet-up, an important Battle for Azeroth build hit, one with new Allied Race druid forms. We headed to a small meeting room to datamine in person, yelling updates across the room as we progressively overheated with a bunch of high-powered laptops processing the build. It was a great bonding experience and we learned that the voice communication was extremely helpful, shaving off minutes of the build process! So now for every PTR build we hop on a group call. Hearing the wisecracks and reactions to data updates is priceless (Stiven always says the funniest things when he discovers a new model) and something I look forward to every week now. (We then had a repeat at BlizzCon, when we datamined a build in a car.)

I've really enjoyed working with the content team this year, expanding our team so all of us have time to focus on our passion projects, bringing unique and detailed content to Wowhead. In my case, I really enjoy writing about literary and visual references in the Battle for Azeroth story. Some of the articles I had fun with include Warbringers: Azshara Cinematic Analysis - N'Zoth, Ny'alotha, Circle of Stars, Old God Whispers, Analysis of the Jaina Visions Cinematic Including Warcraft III References, and Sylvanas' Motivation and Parallels to Arthas in the BFA Pre-Patch. I was also extremely honored to be sent an advance copy of the Battle for Azeroth Collector's Edition, collaborating with Nobbel on a series of lore articles on the novellas "A Good War" and "Elegy." These sorts of articles wouldn't be possible with a smaller team if I constantly had to stop to post hotfixes or update guides.

A special welcome to Nery, who joined the news team in the spring after writing Nostalgia articles in 2017, Dderserei for managing our new PvP guide section, and Archimtiros, whom we threw in the deep end live-blogging at BlizzCon 2018. I also want to thank Ketsuki for her efforts in constantly innovating the site, through setting up new partnerships like INTO THE AM or our BFA stream event!

A special thanks goes to all the sites that use Wowhead tooltips, whether you cover sims or cute pets. We offer the tooltips as a free service across multiple languages, and try to add as many features as possible from community requests. It was also very cool seeing Wowhead tooltips used as part of the Blizzard Twitch Extensions for MDI and Arena (even if it took us by surprise the first time, temporarily melting the site as we worked to handle the load).

I also want to give a shout-out to all of our contributors and collaborators, both new and old. I know I recapped many collaborators in the earlier part of this blog, but I just wanted to state it again. When I first started at Wowhead, we didn't even have a homepage, let alone creators reaching out to collaborate with us. Thank you for choosing Wowhead as your home for sharing information.

Happy new year from Perc, Pepe, and Brightpaw, who is currently ~~destroying Sas' home~~, being babysat by Sas!

PigeonD (Datamining Team)2018 is my first full year on the Wowhead team and it's been amazing. It was a pleasure working with everyone on the team. I'm very glad to have worked on not only the Legion to Battle of Azeroth transition of the site, but also the first release of the Classic site. On top of that it was also the first time I got to meet (almost?) everyone else on the Wowhead core team in person and it was awesome that we visited the Blizzard campus together too.

Looking forward to 2019 and all the new upcoming patches, expansions and spoilers :)Sas (Community Manager)Hello again Wowheaders (I may have just now coined this term)! If you're not already aware, and I certainly hope you are, 2018 has come to an end. This year brought us Battle for Azeroth and a renewed excitement for the game, not to mention solid information about Classic WoW coming in 2019! It's still an exciting time for WoW and I can't imagine using my talents on anything else. Wowhead has been such a great home and I'm so glad to be able to continue thanks to all of the millions of you who continue to support us.

In 2018 it has been great fun continuing to help users with any of their site issues and helping our entire team to ensure we continue to bring you the latest news, features and giveaways. This year brought us the Wowhead Shop! This took a lot of effort and I personally oversee fulfillment of each and every order containing our plushie or pins. We even released several pieces of apparel and accessories through Design by Humans. Additionally, Ketsuki and I worked with Tsepish to create a new collectible pin for several of the major holidays in WoW, including Winter Veil (artist rendering, work in progress), Hallow's End, Midsummer Fire Festival, and Noblegarden. In 2019 we hope to introduce a Love is in the Air version as well. I appreciate everyone's continued enthusiasm and support for our collector's guides: Plushies, Cute but Deadly, Funkos and Pins! It can be a challenge keeping these updates, especially with the rapid release of Overwatch merchandise, but it's all worth it especially when multiple users send personal thanks for the effort.

This year also brought us Anniefuchsia to Wowhead Weekly, and she's such a delight to work with, we're lucky to have her! It was great fun meeting her at this past BlizzCon.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful contractors and volunteers for all their efforts in ensuring our forums, and Discord, are properly moderated. It's a thankless job and our users benefit greatly from their efforts. Translating our site into several other languages, sifting through tens of thousands of screenshots, video submissions and moderator reports each year are just some examples of the effort that goes into making Wowhead so great:

MiRiNae, sjs950103, wooway777, Casmodiah, Merylyan, Sparanoid, FunkyJam, Saphir, thaia, Pegasus2141, withkittens, CaptnJay, DieZZzz, Chaari, strandmaus, Thulm, Buuloki, Drorith, Rankkor, CalaelenDT, Kangi, Onyx1831, Intervencion, wrlwnd, Maylin.Perculia Wowhead Party at BlizzConSquishei (News and Guides)Thank you to all the readers and users who have made 2018 another fantastic year.

At the beginning of this year we got the Battle for Azeroth Beta. It was an exciting time for many players and I had a blast writing news articles on new content and changing systems. I also got to work with many members of the WoW community to begin the Community Opinions series, which I'm very happy with, so an additional thank you to all the readers who took time to read those articles.

And of course, we had Battle for Azeroth launch. It was great working with FatbossTV on their amazing BFA Dungeon and Raid guides. This year also had the Uldir Mythic race as well with Method streaming the race for the first time which was exciting to watch.

It's been an exciting year for Wowhead and World of Warcraft and look forward to what's in store for 2019!

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Commentaire de DrorithHappy new year all!Commentaire de UchurHappy New Year everyone!Commentaire de cellscribeHappy New Year to you and yours and all the best hunting in 2019. :)Commentaire de ArrayaBrightpaw either chose Alliance, or is currently plotting their downfall. Happy new year!Commentaire de cantgetrealnameHappy New Year!Commentaire de SmabreNice article. Thanks for everything you guys do. It was nice reading each of your sections. It’s fun getting to know all of you outside Azeroth.Commentaire de clopixolThank you people for being wowhead :)Commentaire de CymreThank you to everyone who's contributed to the site over the years and of course, the Wowhead team who keep the site current and running.Commentaire de Sindorein1124Thanks for a great year of Wowhead!Commentaire de BallagornEven cat know which faction is best faction

BFA - Best Faction AllianceCommentaire de MordaneHappy New Year everyone and all the best for 2019!

Thanks WoWhead for all that you do. Keep up the great work. And hope you get something that resembles a relaxing break 😊🥳

2019 - the year of good loot! 😊Commentaire de OswaldovzkiHappy new year for all of you (and all of us)! :*Commentaire de gemini78HAPPY NEW YEAR! :DCommentaire de SaffiosiaHappy newyear, may it be less toxic and more constructive ;)
Best wishes for all of youCommentaire de lankybritHappy new year wowhead. I forgot about Classic WoW. Thanks for the reminder :)Commentaire de steebenHappy New yEAR :DCommentaire de mybelovedchaosHappy new year!Commentaire de FleckerManThank you to all the Wowhead peeps, :)Commentaire de PelontirHappy New Year all and thanks Wowhead for a great year!Commentaire de ChiusureHappy New Year, keep up the great effort and work!

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