Archive for August, 2008

World of Warcraft Comic Contest: Winner
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And the comic contest winner for August, 2008, is… Meshuggenah! Congratulations! Remember, this contest will go on all year long, so you will have a…
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New Fan Art
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The Blizzard Fan Art Section has been updated with many new pieces of Wrath of the Lich King artwork.
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Wrath of the Lich King: Inscriptions
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We recently updated our Inscriptions screenshots page with the latest set of scrolls, inks and glyphs available on the beta servers. There are at…
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Wrath of the Lich King: New Maps
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Our maps section has recently been updated with two new maps from the Wrath of the Lich King beta. Be sure to check out maps of Dalaran, the new…
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World of Warcraft Downloads for Your Phone
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Carry a little piece of Azeroth wherever your realworld travels take you with our new World of Warcraftthemed wallpapers and ringtones for your phone….
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Russian Migration Update and Realm Closures
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Following the very successful launch of the Russian localization, the vast majority of Russianspeaking players have migrated over to the new…
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Changes to Debuffs, Buffs, and Raid Stacking
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Jimmythenumbers on the Wrath of the Lich King Beta forum has given us some more insight to the changes they will be making to raid stacking, buffs and…
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Patch 3.0.2 coming to a PTR soon?
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According to Tigole over on the official forums, patch 3.0.2 maybe coming to a PTR soon.None of the classes are done. They are still being iterated…
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Shamans in Beta build 8885
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Well, since I think we’re all pretty aware at this point what a spoiler is, and how reading this post is going to create some for you, I’m not going to try and obfuscate too much in this header paragraph. There are good things, bad things, and still quite a few buggy things held over from the previous build in build 8885. For instance, weapon imbues like Windfury Weapon can be applied to weapons from Northrend again! That’s good.

Ancestral Spirit
, the shaman’s res spell, can no longer be cast on dead targets. That’s bad. (And it’s a bug, based on the comments I did not make this clear. My apologies if I scared anyone.) Purification works (good) but Healing Way doesn’t (bad). And none of this even covers the changes, just the bugs that have and haven’t been addressed. Also, I’m pretty sure we didn’t get any Frogurt but that’s just as well, as it might well have been cursed.

Well, let’s go on to the choice of toppings… er, I mean talents and skill changes. You can scroll down here for some patch note goodness, and I’ll be discussing the changes after the jump.

The jump does not contain monosodium glutamate.

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Lichborne: Playing catch up
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Typically, every week, Lichborne has Daniel pontificating about the important aspects of the upcoming Death Knight class. This week, however, Zach takes over as Daniel is stuck in Ebon Hold on official Death Knight business.

This week on Lichborne, we’ll set aside looking at talents and abilities which seem very much in flux but instead focus on the potential problem of having to catch up with other classes. While the World of Warcraft’s first Heroic class gets the advantage of jump-starting at Level 55, the reality is that a vast portion of the playing community will be trudging their way to Northrend while your Death Knight is just about to set foot in Hellfire Peninsula.

The trouble with this is that the Outlands and all its instances will no longer be the endgame. For the Death Knight, Outlands is merely transitionary to the new endgame and there are no real upgrades worth pursuing — even in the Level 70 instances. Most blues and even the epics from Heroics will be quickly replaced within a few hours of questing in Northrend. Similar to how The Burning Crusade effectively killed instances like Stratholme, Scholomance, and Upper Blackrock Spire, most Death Knights will skip the high level instances in the Outlands. Lichborne regular columnist Daniel put up a great guide for Outlands gear, and those be… serviceable until you hit the new continent.

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