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submitted by WoWBreak, 2 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours ago, Saturday, December 20, 2008 (via http://wowbreak.com/content/Re...)
So everybody has noticed that Blizzard has EXTREMELY ANNOYING advertisements on their forums, right? Follow this link to figure out how to remove those pesky advertisements one and for all!
submitted by WoWBreak, 2 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours ago, Friday, December 19, 2008 (via http://www.mmo-champion.com/in...)
Death Knight Frost * Howling Blast had its cooldown removed. Glyph * Glyph of Blood Boil - Causes your Blood Boil to slow affected targets for 5 sec. (Old - Also reduced damage of Blood Boil by 20%) * Glyph of Death and Decay - Targets of your Death and Decay have a 10% chance to cower in fear for 2 sec. (Down from 20%) * Glyph of Icy Touch - Your Icy Touch generates 10 additional runic power. (Old - Also reduced damage of Icy Touch by 10%) * Glyph of Death Str...
submitted by WoWBreak, 2 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours ago, Friday, December 19, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
With gear upgrades these days being so easy to come by, I'm not so sure 'welfare epics' is such an accurate term for PvP gear anymore. That said, Arena Season 5 started the other day without so much as a whimper. It kind of crept in quietly, without even a patch to go along with it. I'm sure it's taken a few players by surprise to see so many new PvP gear available from different sources that it can get confusing. I know I wrote about it in an old post, but quite a bit has changed since Beta, an...
submitted by WoWBreak, 2 weeks, 5 days ago, Thursday, December 18, 2008 (via http://forums.worldofwarcraft....)
This is slated to be changed in an upcoming patch (not 3.0.8). All new mounts that currently function like vehicles will be changed to function like other standard mounts. This includes the flying carpet.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 13 hours ago, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 (via http://forums.worldofwarcraft....)
Tier 1 - Superior (blue) quality items: * No rating requirements * Costs Honor and Arena points * Equivalent to heroic dungeon items Tier 2- Epic (purple) quality items: * Medium rating requirements * Costs Arena points * Equivalent to 10-person raid items Tier 3 - Epic (purple) quality items: * High rating requirements * Costs Arena points * Equivalent to 25-person raid items * This tier will also contain Arena weapons
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 23 hours ago, Monday, December 15, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
One of the cooler vanity items you can get in Wrath of the Lich King is the Iron Boot Flask, which turns you into an Iron Dwarf for 10 minutes every hour. Currently it only costs 10 Relics of Ulduar (an item that has a chance to drop off of anything in Storm Peaks), but that's going to change in patch 3.0.8. The Relics themselves are losing their current Soulbound status, but the Boot Flask will cost a jarring 250 Relics of Ulduar.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours ago, Monday, December 15, 2008 (via http://www.mmo-champion.com/in...)
Merrymaker is part of What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been to get the Violet Proto-Drake. I assume that most of you will try to complete it, here is a small guide to help you becoming a Merrymaker! On Metzen! Complete Metzen the Reindeer / Metzen the Reindeer, Metzen is still in the Searing Gorge and in Tanaris, just like all the other years. You can check the map on wowhead. The quests for this achievement start in Orgrimmar / Ironforge depending on your faction. (Like pretty much all the qu...
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours ago, Monday, December 15, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
So you're level 80 and you want to respec to a tank build and head straight into tanking 5-mans. In order to be the best tank you can be, there's a very definite first step you should take, which we have discussed before, but which bears repeating: Get 540 Defense. This will make you immune to critical strikes from level 83 mobs, making it much easier to heal you in pretty much every situation, and it's really a prerequisite for serious tanking before any other stat.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours ago, Monday, December 15, 2008 (via http://www.worldofraids.com/ne...)
Check out the link on the WoR website for a really great summarization of the changes coming with the 3.0.8 World of Warcraft patch. The list includes items that are new, changed items, skill differences, quest changes, everything!
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours ago, Sunday, December 14, 2008 (via http://wow.stratics.com/#29812)
Dec 11th, 2008Oh boy. Deborah Tate is an FCC Commissioner (and will be for another three years at least -- she was appointed for another five year term in 2007), and claimed in a speech about telecom policy and regulation last week that "one of the top reasons for college drop-outs in the U.S. is online gaming addiction -- such as World of Warcraft -- which is played by 11 million individuals worldwide."
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours ago, Sunday, December 14, 2008 (via http://www.worldofwarcraft.com...)
"He charged deep into the fray, heading for the humans' general. The rest of us spread out and aided the Alliance forces where necessary. They were fools to have started this fight without us. They'd seen little of war, and for the past six years we had been at "peace". They were soft, and they were smugly certain they could win the day. It hadn't occurred to them that they might lose. They didn't really understand loss, not as we orcs do."
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours ago, Sunday, December 14, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
MMO-Champion has a list of the new stats for many Northrend-era "feral staves" from the 3.0.8 PTR on their site. As you can see, feral attack power as a statistic is no more. Instead, each staff now has the higher base DPS you'd expect for a solid 2-handed melee weapon of their level, and any strength has been converted to straight up attack power. This is, of course, expected, since we knew Druids were getting the ability to use weapon DPS, but it's interesting that they have completely overhau...
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours ago, Saturday, December 13, 2008 (via http://www.mmo-champion.com/in...)
Updates Relic of Ulduar aren't soulbound anymore. Small update on the new stats of Feral staves, Druids can now see the Feral AP value given by all weapons. Many item changes added, new Sigils, Titansteel Guardian new stats, and also a few change to the Sons All Feral Druid Staves have been changed, you can check the comparison of the new/old stats for most of the WotLK feral staves. Let's start the updates! New epic rewards now properly labelled as Lake Wintergrasp rewards, prices added.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours ago, Saturday, December 13, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
Mounts! A subject near and dear to my heart, having been one in my past life. With today's posting of the patch notes for PTR patch 3.0.8, we've discovered that mounts are no longer restricted by race, which means that any mount available to your faction is yours to ride as you see fit. Tauren, this means you can ride that skelly horse you've been after, or even a choc--err, hawkstrider. It also means that if you're a human, night elf, or draenei, you can ratchet the ridiculousness level up to e...
submitted by ant, 3 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours ago, Friday, December 12, 2008 (via http://www.cctv.com/program/cu...)
"Oline role-playing games are booming in China. The influence of virtual world is spreading even into day to day life. A newly opened Beijing restaurant captures the trend. The interior decoration of the place is inspired by one popular online game..."
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 4 days, 5 hours ago, Friday, December 12, 2008 (via http://www.mmo-champion.com/in...)
# Players may now create death knights on any realm once they reach level 55. # Bonus Armor: The mechanics for items with bonus armor on them has changed (any cloth, leather, mail, or plate items with extra armor, or any other items with any armor). Bonus armor beyond the base armor of an item will no longer be multiplied by any talents or by the bonuses of Bear Form, Dire Bear Form, or Frost Presence.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 4 days, 5 hours ago, Friday, December 12, 2008 (via http://forums.worldofwarcraft....)
We've made some changes to several dungeons to allow easier access for players in the upcoming patch. The ritual objects that used to require 3 players to activate in Blackrock Spire and Uldaman now only require 1. You no longer need quintessence to summon Majordomo Executus. You no longer need the Scepter of Celebras to teleport to the final section of Maraudon. You no longer need the Mallet of Zul'Farrak to summon Gahz'rilla. The Scepter and Mallet both turn into actual weapons.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 5 days, 14 hours ago, Thursday, December 11, 2008 (via http://blue.mmo-champion.com/2...)
We have talked about making some of these changes and wanted to provide more details. You should be able to try these out yourselves on the PTR before they go live. Our reason for most of these changes should be obvious, but some common themes are:-- Making tanking still rely on cooldowns, but rely on them a little less. -- Make Blood a more attractive spec, and particularly for tanking.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 5 days, 14 hours ago, Thursday, December 11, 2008 (via http://us.blizzard.com/support...)
Character Re-Customization. What does that mean? In short, for a fee of $15, you can rebuild your character, with some restrictions. You can change your gender, face, skin, hair, and name, but not your race or class.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours ago, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (via http://www.dual-boxing.com/for...)
Just an update on the 5x boomkin. Holy crap they are amazing. I was lucky to roll them prior to WOTLK w/o knowing they would be getting some extreme buffs. I'll describe some typical situations with my 5x Boomkins;
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours ago, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (via http://forums.worldofwarcraft....)
On dual spec: The idea is to let you swap glyphs and action bars along with your talents. It will be trivial to do in town. You will also be able to do it out of towns, but not as trivially. We hope to have this done for the next major content patch, but it's a big feature and takes some time.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours ago, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
It was made very clear that Wintergrasp is hands down the best spot for farming Crystallized Whatevers if you don't have Mining or Herbalism. That's not the only thing that's easily farmed there, either. It's packed full of herbs and ore. It's currently the only place in all of Northrend that you can find Frost Lotus nodes.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours ago, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (via http://www.mmo-champion.com/in...)
General Spell casting and spell channelling pushback has been changed to the following: When casting a spell: * The first and second hit will add .5 secs each to the cast time. * All hits after the second will have no effect. When channelling a spell: * The first and second hit reduces current duration by 25% of total duration each. * All hits after the second will have no effect.
submitted by WoWBreak, 3 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours ago, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (via http://blue.mmo-champion.com/2...)
Blizzard Quote: Hunters of all specs, and particularly Beastmaster, are doing too much damage in PvE. We tested this a lot internally in beta and knew hunters were high but we hoped other classes would be able to catch up in a way they have as yet.
submitted by WoWBreak, 4 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours ago, Monday, December 08, 2008 (via http://mapwow.com/blog/2008/12...)
In WotLK, the only way to learn these transmutes is by randomly discovering them. Previously this was a time-consuming process that required performing lots and lots of transmutes. However there's a trick to quickly discover all of the transmutes! Here's how:
submitted by WoWBreak, 4 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours ago, Monday, December 08, 2008 (via http://wtbblue.com/10-man-raid...)
Check out this AMAZING guide to the 10 man WOTLK Naxx instance from WTBBlue.com: Access to Naxxramas it gained through a teleporter at the bottom of the necropolis which requires a flying mount to access. There is no key required to enter the raid instance. Naxxramas is split into 4 wings - all of which has to be cleared before the way to Kel'Thuzad is opened. The wings can be cleared in any order although some wings are easier then others.
submitted by WoWBreak, 5 weeks, 2 days, 11 hours ago, Sunday, November 30, 2008 (via http://www.wtbblue.com/site-up...)
o by following the 70-80 leveling guide - solo questing the entire way without doing any instances - it apparently takes less then a day and a 1/2 to reach 80. (Would have saved a few more hours if I was on a PVE realm - also for those wondering I had about 6-7 hours of sleep since launch)!
submitted by mapwow, 7 weeks, 5 days, 14 hours ago, Thursday, November 13, 2008 (via http://mapwow.com/northrend/)
An ultra-high-resolution map of Northrend is now available at mapwow.
submitted by WoWBreak, 10 weeks, 6 days, 17 hours ago, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (via http://www.wowarmory.com/updat...)
The Armory now supports the new Player Calendar, one of the new features added to the game in patch 3.0.2: Echoes of Doom. The Player Calendar allows players to create their own events such as raids, arena matches, and guild meetings, and keep track of the many activities in the worlds of Azeroth and Outland.
submitted by WoWBreak, 10 weeks, 6 days, 17 hours ago, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 (via http://www.wowinsider.com/2008...)
According to the Patch 3.0.3 patch notes, the Druid Swift Flight Form, Paladin Charger, and Warlock Dreadsteed spells will soon become trainable. Before you all celebrate (or throw out invectives...), it should be noted that these spells will only become available at a level above the minimum required level to obtain the mounts or form and will require the appropriate riding skill.
