Patch 9.0.5
How to get this year’s best transmog item: Rhinestone Sunglasses
Shadowlands patch 9.0.5 was mostly built around balancing and a few quality-of-life changes, so it may have slipped under your radar that you can now transmog your helm to Rhinestone Sunglasses.
How long is too long between patches?
I've written on this subject before, of course -- back in 2015, for example, and boy howdy that was six years ago -- but seeing Reddit user cptshooter put together a timeline of every WoW expansion going back to vanilla showing when each patch dropped shows us that in Shadowlands we're likely going to be sitting through one of the longer gaps between major patches in World of Warcraft history.
A brief history of Valor Points in WoW
How many times have you seen a player saying in trade chat, "bring back Valor Points," as a solution to help people bridge the gap between RNG and that 158 ilevel ring they're still using?
How to earn and spend Valor Points in WoW patch 9.0.5
With patch 9.0.5 came the newest iteration of Valor Points, another currency to add to the growing list that Shadowlands has added.
Where are the Valor Point vendors in Shadowlands? Gear upgrades or trade skill mats, here’s where they’re hiding
Shadowlands patch 9.0.5 brought back Valor Points as a method primarily for upgrading gear acquired in Mythic+ dungeons.
How to get the Wandering Ancient Mount, even if you’re not currently subbed
With the arrival of Shadowlands patch 9.0.5, World of Warcraft players are beginning to receive the winner of last year's mount poll, the Wandering Ancient.
In case you weren’t sure, here’s what’s in WoW patch 9.0.5, now live
The first patch for Shadowlands is patch 9.0.5, which just went live today.
The Wandering Ancient mount starts to appear in World of Warcraft, releasing over the next few days
It's a giant walking tree whose leaves will change depending on the season — and it's also the newest World of Warcraft mount.
Patch 9.0.5 will let you wear your sunglasses at night (and the rest of the time)
In advance of BlizzConline, Blizzard has still been hard at work on patch 9.0.5.
Patch 9.0.5 will bring relief for players thirsting for more ways to gather Anima with Redeemed Souls
As things stand right now, while it's certainly quite doable to gather 1000 Anima a week for the Renown and all your Anima needs -- like gear upgrades, improving your Covenant HQ, or just to pick up rare mounts or other cool items -- it can be a trifle of a chore and it often feels like you're running the same errands.
