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A Shaman Apart LOL
Funny movie poster edited for World of Warcraft!

Tanking?
There has been a lot of discussion about which tanking class is the best or easiest to play. We want to mention though it’s all preference. But it also depends on what you want to tank. Some tanks have the ability to tank aoe groups a bit easier than other due to the more aoe spells they have. For example Paladins and Death knights have consecrate or death and decay. Death knights have pestilence as well to spread diseases. Not so familiar with druid tanking but I believe they have an AoE swipe. We would like to know which class you find best for tanking overall. Because as it stands even though Death Knight could tank AoE mobs they can tank single targets just as good. So every class has its Pros and Cons. But weighing them all out we want to know which you think is the best choice!

L70ETC – The power of the horde
Awesome World Of Warcraft music band haha! Came across some really cool videos but one that really caught my attention was The power of the horde! Storm, earth, and fire, heed my call!!!…..

Blizzard at Dreamhack Computer Festival
So Blizzard will be at Dreamhack festival and you will be able to play Cataclysm and Starcraft II there!

Quote from: Ancilorn (Source)

We’re pleased to announce that Blizzard Entertainment will be attending Dreamhack Winter 2009, the world’s largest computer festival, which is taking place from 26th to 29th November in Jönköping, Sweden.

Dreamhack attendees will be able to visit the Blizzard booth to take part in various competitions and contests, and also to play both StarCraft II and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

You can find out more about Dreamhack Winter 2009 at http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw09.

We look forward to seeing you there!

3.3 PTR Patch Notes Updated
So far these are the only changes for 3.3 patch notes today.

• Druids: Eclipse

Update: 11.23.2009

Druids

• Talents
  • Balance
    • Eclipse: This effect will not activate again within 15 seconds of either type of Eclipse effect firing, in addition to the existing 30-second cooldown for each type of Eclipse.

PTR Maintenance
The PTR test realms are being withdrawn today for maintenance as well as a new build. Stay tuned for more updates.

Quote from: Dresorull (Source)

We will be bringing down the PTR servers today for maintenance at approximately 3:45 PM PST. There is currently no estimated time for this maintenance.

This thread will be updated as more information becomes available.

Mr. T is back again!
Two days ago blizzard uploaded a new commercial via youtube! This one is called the Mohawk Scan. It’s relevant to the Mohawk grenade commercial and it’s pretty cool! =) Click play below to view!

World Of Warcraft’s 5th Anniversary
The 5th anniversary for our favorite game has arrived! Just log into the game and you’ll get an awesome pet! It will be in your mailbox! The pet is an Onyxian Whelpling!

Pilgrim’s Bounty
Here is some fun for all you WoW cooks! Here is a guide to Pilgrim’s Bounty brought to you by WoWhead! Other than receiving an achievement you do recieve an in game pet which is a Plump turkey companion. You also receive five new cooking recipes! Check out the blue post below and the guide from WoWhead for more info!

Quote from: Blizzard (Source)

We invite you to celebrate Pilgrim’s Bounty with us. It’s a time for reflecting on your journeys and good fortune, sharing plentiful food, and stories with friends.

You can partake in wonderful Pilgrim’s Bounty feasts near major towns by sitting at a Bountiful Table and enjoying the foods you find there.

If you’re interested in learning the Pilgrim’s Bounty’s recipes, speak with an NPC outside any major city. Stuffing and potatoes are easy enough to put in front of a fire, but if you want to cook a turkey, you’ll need to catch one first. Unsling your trusty Turkey Shooter and prepare for the hunt.

Features

Type: Seasonal Holiday
Date: November 22 – 28
Locations:

Major Cities (Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdom Only): Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, Exodar, Orgrimmar, Undercity, Silvermoon City, and Thunderbluff
Minor Towns: Goldshire, Kharanos, Dolanaar, Azure Watch, Razor HIll, Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Tranquilien, Ruins of Thaurissan, Shadowprey Village, Falconwing Square, Stonard, Hammerfall, Revantusk Village, Light’s Hope Chapel, Wildhammer Keep, Chilwind Camp, Southshore, Tarren Mill, Sepulcher

Bountiful Tables

Bountiful Tables are the centerpiece of the Pilgrim’s Bounty celebration. They are tables loaded with food and surrounded by interactive chairs that allow you to eat and share food with other players via the action bar.

A Bountiful Table is laid out with five different Pilgrim’s Bounty foods, one in front of each chair. Each chair has an unlimited supply of one food, and they are conveniently labeled: The Sweet Potato Chair, The Turkey Chair, The Stuffing Chair, The Cranberry Chair, and The Pie Chair. While in a chair, you may eat as much of that food as you like, as well as pass servings of that food to other players sitting in the chairs. Share the bountiful feasts with your friends!

If you eat five helpings of any single food, you’ll gain benefits unique to that food. In addition, if you eat five helpings of every food, you’ll gain the Spirit of Sharing which lasts one hour and increases reputation gained by 10%. This is accomplished much faster if you work together with your fellow feasters at passing food to one another.

Daily Cooking Quests

Pilgrim’s Bounty also plays host to a series of daily cooking quests designed to help chefs master their craft with seasonal recipes plucked from a Bountiful Cookbook. These quests require players to travel between the major cities of Azeroth and to fill the stomachs of armies with seasonal food. The reward for these quests is a Turkey Caller, a prize that ensures that the accomplished pilgrim will never go hungry again.

All things in moderation guys haha

Horde For Life!
Came across a very cool video that all horde players should have the opportunity to listen to! It’s pretty cool check it out! Leave your comments about it =)

Patch 3.3 Background Download
The background download started yesterday for patch 3.3! Now hold your horses everyone, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the patch is coming out next week. There is a possibility though. But for sure we can tell you that it’s coming soon! This is the US patch, 448 MB. Players in europe will download around the same!

Shadowmourne – NOT FOR HUNTERS!
This is one weapon Hunters aren’t going to be able to wield. Sorry Hunters =(

Quote from: Valnoth (Source)

The quest requires friendly Ashen Verdict rep to begin. It may also only be acquired by Warriors, Paladins and Death Knights.

Blue Posts!

Icecrown frostwyrm mounts (Source)

There will be a Frostwyrms up for grabs for Icecrown raiders, achievable in a similar way to previous rewards such as the Ulduar proto-drake.

Chill of the Throne (Source)

The “Icewell Radiance” is designed to account for very high avoidance levels. It lets us lower the damage bosses do per hit because their hits will connect more often, keeping boss dps the same but lowering spike damage.

However, I also know what that message says to some people. It says that if I go into Icecrown and wipe on a boss all night that Blizzard lied to me about boss damage. We’re just sort of bracing ourselves for the inevitable “I couldn’t beat Marrowgar because he hits so hard. I thought bosses wouldn’t hit hard.”

Bosses hitting less hard does not mean bosses can now be facerolled. It just means they hit less hard. To be fair, most of the folks posting in this thread understand the difference. But it’s not uncommon for us to see our quotes misused in other forums where we can’t necessarily bop in to correct the misunderstanding.

Druid

Feral items in Cataclysm (Source)

We talked about druids in bear form also getting AP from strength. Strength won’t appear on leather and no piece should have Str and Agi together, so it’s not like they would really double dip. That lets us still have tanking necks, rings and cloaks with strength on them that are attractive to all 4 tanking classes.

Almost all the items in the game are going to have to change. In many cases this is just a sweeping pass we can make on all gear, such as replacing the Agi + AP on leather with just Agi. So don’t worry too much about what happens with old gear and talents mixed with the new stat system. The gear and talents in many cases must change.

Mage

Fingers of Frost (Source)

The Fingers of Frost issue is really challenging to solve. It it procs on hit then the procs don’t get eaten but you may have to interrupt a Frostbolt. If it procs on cast, the procs can get eaten. Those are really the only ways it can proc though. Mixing travel-time spells and instant spells can muddy things up. Things also get more complicated when you have silly amounts of haste, which through no fault of their own, many mages do.

Fingers of Frost seems to work fine so long as you have Frostbite, but due to some technical limitations, the two talents don’t play well apart. A long-term solution might be to make Frostbite a prereq for FoF or just merge the two talents together.

Letting Fingers of Frost display its charges is a good idea. We might not be able to get that in for 3.3 but we’ll put it on “the list.”

Rogue

Weapon swap addon in 3.3 (Source)

We also killed the addon, but we didn’t want to do it without also trying to fix the problem it was trying to fix.

Shaman

Elemental tier-9 nerf (Source)

We don’t want players to stick with older tier sets when new pieces become available. (It’s one thing if it’s a really good trinket — it’s another if it’s your entire set..)

We balance some things around absolute values (we’re shooting for a target) and other things around relative values (how X looks compared to Y). A lot of shaman were saying they weren’t going to upgrade to tier 10 despite the, frankly, gratuitous stats on the new gear. We concluded that was because the T9 set bonus was too good and the T10 set bonus was too weak. We suspected the T9 was too good for some time, but didn’t want to nerf it while the T9 was all that was available. We did the same thing with a few other sets (or relics).

We try to pick interesting set bonuses, but that means that they will sometimes end up being over or under-budget once players figure out the best ways to optimize their play style around the bonuses. A little of that is okay — it’s interesting when a new set changes your spell rotation a little bit. But when an older set is so good that players feel like upgrading is a bad thing (ignoring the pain of having to get new enchants and gems or whatever) then we think we have a problem.

From a player point of view, I can understand why the attractive answer is always just to buff the new stuff. But continually buffing an outlier instead of bringing the outlier back into the pack is a good way to lead to power inflation on gear.

Where did WoW Dances come from?
We all love those interesting dances that Blizzard has given our certain races. Well here are where a couple known dances are from! Check it out. There will be more updates about where other dances came from as well so stay tuned!