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Pets
    * Rake (Cat), Scorpid Poison (Scorpid): Lowered damage of all ranks.
    * Stampede (Rhino): Lowered the knockback to 10 yards.
    * Raised the damage of exotic attacks: Spirit Strike, Lava Breath, Froststorm Breath, Acid Spit, and Stampede.
    * Lowered the cost of pet specials from 25 to 20.

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.0.3

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

    * Removed “A Mask for All Occassions” as criteria for the “Hallowed Be thy Name” meta achievement.
    * Replenishment: Players below level 50 can now benefit from this effect.

Racial

    * Blood Fury: No longer triggers global cooldown.
    * Shadowmeld: The cooldown will now start on use instead of on break.
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Druids

    * Druid talents points have been refunded. Players will need to visit a class trainer to relearn spells and abilities.
    * The Swift Flight Form is now available on the trainer at level 71, requiring 300 riding skill, and Flight Form learned.
    * Bash: The interrupt from this ability will now work on targets who are immune to the stun.
    * Berserk: Now clears the cooldown on Mangle Bear.
    * Earth and Moon and Moonfury (Balance) reduced from 5 ranks each to 3 ranks each.
    * Eclipse: Buff duration extended to 15 sec and bonuses doubled. The cooldown has been increased to 40 seconds.
    * Growl: Cooldown changed to 8 sec.
    * Insect Swarm: Tooltip corrected to indicate it does not affect hit chance with spells.
    * Nature’s Swiftness: This ability will no longer give chances to trigger Omen of Clarity.
    * Omen of Clarity: Will no longer be triggered by the Honorless Target buff gained when entering the world.
    * Survival Instincts will no longer be on the Global Cooldown.
    * Swiftmend: now benefits correctly from Genesis talent.

Hunters

    * Aimed Shot: Added to Barrage and Improved Barrage talent.
    * Animal Handler: Now increases your pet’s expertise by 5/10. (No longer increases the pet’s chance to hit.)
    * Aspects now have a shared cooldown category of 1 sec and no longer have a start cooldown.
    * Aspect of the Dragonhawk: New aspect added that combines the benefit of Aspect of the Monkey and Aspect of the Hawk, available at level 75 and 80.
    * Aspect of the Monkey: The Dodge chance has been increased from 8% to 18%.
    * Aspect of the Viper: The per attack mana regeneration has been reduced by 50% but this ability now generates 4% of maximum mana every 3 sec. In addition, the per attack regeneration now also works on melee attacks.
    * Disengage now fails if you’re rooted and is no longer on the global cooldown.
    * Hunter vs. Wild: The attack power bonus from this talent now applies properly to Hunter pets. In addition, the bonus attack power will now be recalculated properly from equipping items.
    * Improved Aspect of the Hawk: This talent no longer causes incorrect mana costs when interacting with the Rapid Recuperation and Improved Steady Shot talents.
    * Mana cost of Disengage has been lowered to 5% of base mana, down from 14%.
    * Pets
          o Rake (Cat), Scorpid Poison (Scorpid): Lowered damage of all ranks.
          o Stampede (Rhino): Lowered the knockback to 10 yards.
          o Raised the damage of exotic attacks: Spirit Strike, Lava Breath, Froststorm Breath, Acid Spit, and Stampede.
          o Lowered the cost of pet specials from 25 to 20.
      • Thrill of the Hunt: The mana gained from using this talent with Explosive Shot is now 1/3 of the normal amount per critical strike (but gets 3 opportunities per cast.) • T.N.T.: Explosive Shot can now only trigger this talent when it is initially fired.

Mages

    * Arcane Potency: The additional crit bonus is now consumed immediately on cast of a travel time spell, so it is no longer possible to make two spells benefit from one charge. (Ex. Fireball followed by Fireblast.)
    * Blast Wave: no longer receives double the intended critical strike bonus from Combustion.
    * Burnout: Now consumes extra mana as intended when livming Bomb gets a critical strike.
    * Deep Freeze: Now consumes a charge of Fingers of Frost when used.
    * Focus Magic: Now works properly when mages with this talent use the ability on each other.
    * Frostfire Bolt: The periodic damage effect from Rank 2 of this spell now benefits from spell power gans.
    * Living Bomb: Mana cost reduced to be the same as Arcane Explosion.. It no longer causes the caster to stand up when the final explosion occurs and it is now possible for each mage to have Living Bomb active on a target.
    * Master of Elements: Now works with Living Bomb.
    * Molten Fury: This talent no longer prevents Ice Lance ranks 2 and 3 from dealing triple damage against frozen targets.
    * Reduced the mana cost of Fireball, Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt, Arcane Blast, Arcane Missiles, and Arcane Explosion.
    * Torment the Weak: Now works correctly when the Mage also knows the Molten Fury Talent.

Paladins

    * Art of War: No longer increases critical strike damage on Judgements, Crusader Strike, and Divine Storm, instead increases all damage done by those abilities by a smaller amount.
    * The Avenger’s Shield bounce distance has been reduced to 10 yards (from 15).
    * The epic ground mount is now available on the trainer at level 61, requiring 150 riding skill, and the non-epic mount learned.
    * Blessing of Might: Rank 8 points increased slightly to prevent from being overwritten by BattleShout 8 that has a shorter duration (also applies to Greater Blessing of Might 3.)
    * Blessing of Sanctuary: It is no longer possible to have both Blessing of Sanctuary and Greater Blessing of Sanctuary active on a target at the same time.
    * Crusade: No longer applies damage bonus twice to critical strikes.
    * Divine Plea: This spell’s duration is no longer affected by haste.
    * Divine Purpose: Rank 1 of this ability will now correctly determine its chance of remove stun.
    * Enlightened Judgments now increases range by 15/30 (was 10/20).
    * Eye for an Eye: No longer breaks crowd control effects.
    * Hammer of Justice: The interrupt from this ability will also be redirected when the stun is redirected. In addition, the interrupt will now work on targets immune to stun.
    * Hammer of the Righteous: Tooltip corrected to indicate it does 4 times weapon dps instead of 3.
    * Infusion of Light (Holy) now affects Flash of Light too, reducing its cast time down to zero and can be used while moving.
    * Judgements: The debuffs from Judgement of Light, Judgement of Wisdom, and Judgement of Justice will no longer be applied if the Judgement spell itself misses.
    * Judgements of the Pure: Haste increased to 3/6/9/12/15%.
    * Repentance PvP duration reduced to 6 sec.
    * Righteous Defense cooldown has been lowered to 8 sec (was 15 sec).
    * Righteous Vengeance: No longer increases critical strike damage on Judgements and Divine Storm, instead applies a DoT effect similar to Deep Wounds.
    * Seal of the Martyr: Tooltip for Judgement damage was incorrect and has been fixed.
    * Sheath of Light: Now correctly benefits Judgements of Command, Blood, and The Martyr.
    * Shield of the Templar now also reduces all damage taken by 1/2/3%.

Priests

    * Binding Heal: Now only consumes one charge of Holy Concentration per cast.
    * Borrowed Time: Charge no longer consumed by spells with a base cast time that is instant.
    * Devouring Plague: The bonus coefficient has been increased to be on par with other DoT spells. Base damage on ranks 7,8, and 9 decreased to partially compensate for better scaling.
    * Divine Providence: This talent now also reduces the cooldown of your Prayer of Mending spell by 6/12/18/24/30%. With 5 points applied, it takes Prayer of Mending’s cooldown from 10 sec to 7 sec.
    * Divine Spirit: Now can be refreshed properly on self after logging in and out or zoning. (Also applies to Prayer of Spirit.)
    * Guardian Spirit: A target may now have only one Guardian Spirit active.
    * Healing Focus: Now works properly with Penance.
    * Improved Divine Spirit: No longer improves Divine Spirit after untalenting sometimes.
    * Inner Focus: Now works properly with Mind Flay, Mind Sear, and Penance.
    * Prayer of Spirit: Will no longer stack with other raid spell power buffs.
    * Shadowform: Devouring Plague, Shadow Word:Pain, and Vampiric Touch cast in Shadowform deal increased damage percentage equal to the player’s chance to get a spell crit on their target.
    * Shadow Word:Death: The self-damage from this spell can no longer be reflected or redirected.
    * Vampiric Touch: The Spell power coefficient has been doubled and no longer triggers Replenishment when other priests cast Mind Blast.

Rogues

    * Combat Potency: Now only works with autoattacks (no more Shiv.)
    * Fan of Knives changed to be castable with no targets, further improved the visual affect and it no longer plays an impact on the caster. Now benefits correctly from the Find Weakness talent.
    * Killing Spree: The rogue is now untargetable during the duration of the spree. In addition, no longer sometimes selects dead targets and no longer breaks stealth on nearby targets.
    * Riposte: Duration of this effect no longer reduced by other effects that reduce disarm duration.
    * Shadow Dance: The cooldowns on Sap, Garrotte, Ambush, Cheap Shot, Premeditation, Pickpocket, and Disarm Trap are no longer increased while this ability is activated.

Shaman

    * Flurry: Now grants the proper number of charges when it triggers.
    * Improved Fire Nova Totem: Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova Totem by 10/20% and your Fire Nova totem has a 50/100% chance to stun all targets damaged by your Fire nova Totem for 2 sec.
    * Lava Burst: The base damage has been increased by approx. 10%.
    * Maelstrom Weapon: Tooltips corrected to correctly describe the chance for this talent to be triggered.
    * Riptide: The initial heal amount has been increased on ranks 3 and 4 and periodic healing has been increased on all ranks.
    * Stormstrike: Other shamans can no longer consume charges of your Stormstrike, and each shaman can have their own stormstrike on the victim.
    * Storm Reach is now called “Elemental Reach” and now includes Lava Burst.
    * Thunderstorm: Mana gain has been increased to 8%.
    * Tidal Mastery: Now correctly applies its critical strike bonus to Earth Shield.
    * Tidal Waves will now also proc with Riptide.

Warlocks

    * The epic ground mount is now available on the trainer at level 61, requiring 150 riding skill, and the non-epic mount learned.
    * Demonic Sacrifice: The buffs from this ability will now be retained properly when logging out or zoning.
    * Demonic Empowerment: This talent no longer gives excessive threat to the Warlock’s Voidwalker.
    * Destructive Reach: Now properly reduces threat on Chaos Bolt and Shadowflame.
    * Drain Soul: Rank 6 now properly deals additional damage ot targets below 25% health.
    * Haunt: The cooldown has been changed to 8 sec, and refreshing the Haunt will trigger the heal from the existing Haunt.This ability will no longer heal for incorrect amounts or fail to heal when the Huaunt damage was the killing blow.
    * Inferno: The Infernal is now useable indoors and the tooltip has been updated.
    * Master Demonologist (Felhunter) will now also reduce damage taken by Holy.
    * Ritual of Doom: Now works correctly even when the Warlock already has a pet (dismissed the existing pet.)
    * Shadowflame: Damaged increased approx. 75%. Coefficients unchanged.
    * Shadow Embrace: Now works on ranks 1-4 and stacks properly with multiple applications.
    * Soul Link (Demonology): Increased from 15% to 20%.

Warriors

    * Armored to the Teeth: Grants only attack power( as intended) and recalculates the bonus immediately upon learning any rank of the talent.
    * Bladestorm: Now breaks all snares and roots on the warrior when activated.
    * Bloodthirst: Cooldown reduced to 5 sec.
    * Deep Wounds: Now works properly with Heroic Throw.
    * Heroic Throw: No longer gains increased damage from the warrior’s agility.
    * Improved Rend changed to 10/20%.
    * Rampage: Can now be triggered by off-hand Whirlwind damage.
    * Rend: Damage has been adjusted to be less base and more weapon based.

    * Rend: Ranks 9 and 10 now do 35% more damage when the target is above 75% health instead of 4 times damage when the target is enraged. Sudden Death: Now has 3/6/9% chance on hit instead of 10/20/30% chance on crit.
    * Titan’s Grip: Changed to 12% penalty instead of 15%.
    * Vigilance: Now properly transfers threat generated by heals.

Professions

    * The level requirements required to train gathering skills have been removed.
    * Alchemy
          o Reduced the effect of Elixir of Mongoose and Elixir of Major Agility.
    * Inscription
          o Glyph of Crusader Strike: Now reduces mana cost by 20% instead of increase damage on stunned and incapacitated targets.
          o Glyph of Flame Shock: Now extends duration by 6 sec and prevents Flame Shock from being consumed by Lava Burst.
          o Glyph of Lava: Glyph of Earth Elemental removed and replaced with this glyph. This glyph increases coefficient on Lava Burst by 0.1.
          o Glyph of Mind Flay: Now sets snare to 10% instead of removing it.
          o Glyph of Rejuvenation: Now works correctly when the target is not self.
          o Glyph of Shiv: Replaced with Glyph of Vigor, which increases maximum energy by an additional 10 for those with the Vigor talent.
          o Glyph of Shadow: Glyph of Mind Soothe removed and replaced with this glyph. This glyph increases spell power by 10% of spirit for 10 sec after critting while in Shadowform.
          o Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain: Increases damage done by Mind Flay when SW:P is present by 10%.
          o Glyph of Sinister Strike: Chance increased to 50%.
          o Glyph of Souls no longer removes soul shard cost. It instead reduces the mana cost of your Ritual of Souls spell by 70%.
          o Glyph of Spirit of Redemption: Tooltip corrected to 4 sec. extra when the glyph triggers.
          o Glyph of Strength of Earth: Replaced with Glyph of Lava Lash which increases the bonus from having Flametongue Weapon by 10%.
          o Glyph of Trueshot Aura: Now increases Aimed Shot crit chance instead of increasing attack power bonus.
          o Glyph of Totem of Wrath: Replaced with Glyph of Elemental Mastery, which decreases the cooldown on Elemental Mastery by 30 sec.

User Interface

    * For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros forum.

Items

    * The war against spelling errors continues: many items have had typos removed or their functionality clarified.
    * The item quality on several quest rewards was incorrect and has been altered.
    * The phoenix summoned by Ashes of Al’ar has had his flame trains restored.
    * Guardian’s Band of Subjugation now correctly grants universal haste.
    * Girdle of the Warrior Magi now has a socket bonus.
    * Some one-hand spell power weapons are now main hand only.
    * Heart of the Dragon should now provide a consistent amount of Ranged Attack Power.
    * Loatheb’s Shadow should now provide a consistent amount of Ranged Attack Power.
    * Spirit-World Glass now correctly has a cooldown.
    * Discerning Eye of the Besat procs should now be more obvious.
    * Focusing Lenses now have a cooldown.
    * The Horseman’s Reings should again function in Dalaran.
    * Haute Club Membership Card no longer prompts players to open it.
    * The buff granted by Frenzyheart Insingia of Fury now has a correct tooltip.
    * Harness of Carnal Instinct no longer has bonus armor.
    * Boots of the Protector have been brought in line with protection paladin itemization changes.
    * A tootip error in the Glyph of Spint has been corrected.
    * Grilled Sculpin now correctly grants Ranged Attack Power.
    * Libram of Souls Redeemed should now only affect Holy Light.
    * Legacy items that had both melee and spell critical strike rating have been integrated to the unified rating.
    * Held in hand books created by Inscription are now Bind on Equip rather than Bind on Pickup.

Bug Fixes

    * Fixed an issue that was affecting terrain rendering on GeForce 3 and 4 Ti cards. Those that added the command Set fixedfunction 1 to their config.wtf file should remove it to avoid a decrease in performance.
    * Glyph of Rupture: The tooltip has been corrected.
    * Hunter: Ferocious Inspiration will now apply raid-wide, as intended.
    * Hunter Pets
          o Sonic Blast (Bat): Will no longer ignore LoS.
          o Bad Attitude (Croc): Will no longer ignore the Longevity buff.
          o Thunderstomp (Gorilla): Will no longer have a physical coefficient instead of a magical one.
          o Gore (Bore): Fixed an issue where a wrong value was being applied.
          o Savage Rend: Corrected typos in the tooltip.
    * Mage: Burning Determination will now work properly.
    * Mage: Living Bomb’s “explosion effect” will now be properly classified.
    * Priest: Holy Reach (Rank 2) will now increase the radius of Divine Hymn properly.
    * Priest: Inner Focus will now properly increase the critical strike chance of the talent Penance.
    * Shaman: Totem of Wrath tooltip updated to reflect that it affects all crit chance and indicate that it increases Spell Power (instead of just damage).

priest boosts

Even though I've been working on achievements for my Pally I'm really starting to look longingly at the DK.   Damn my altitis.

My friend told me that even though their abilities look a lot the same, they play very different. DKs have almost no burst.

Oh, and just about the most fucking useless 51 point talent in the game. Woot.

     • Thrill of the Hunt: The mana gained from using this talent with Explosive Shot is now 1/3 of the normal amount per critical strike (but gets 3 opportunities per cast.) • T.N.T.: Explosive Shot can now only trigger this talent when it is initially fired.

Wat? We're getting a couple of minor fixes, and some minor buffs to deep-shadow that still won't make it a competitive DPS spec. No mention of any fix for the prayer of mending bug though...

What Paladin spec DOES have burst at this point?

Shrug. No burst, no mana, no snares, no hope.

Oh, and just about the most fucking useless 51 point talent in the game. Woot.

Awwww. :(

The lesson is to pick the weakest class, because eventually everything else will be nerfed into the ground.

Glyph of Souls no longer removes soul shard cost. It instead reduces the mana cost of your Ritual of Souls spell by 70%.

Most head-scratching, fuckarsed change ever.

The lesson is to pick a pure tank or pure healer class. Even when you're nerfed, people will invite you to the best parties.

They need to make soulshards a currency so they go in that currency tab with an unlimited quantity. Just farming on my lock i could easily pick up hundreds of shards and never have to worry about bank space. Wouldnt this solve a large part of the problem?

Awwww. :(

excellent point.....   or at least be able to stack the friggin things......

Or a simple corollary, stop picking the retarded FOTM DPS class because it's cool atm. The Sword of Damocles hovers over such classes.

excellent point.....   or at least be able to stack the friggin things......

Unfortunately if you make them currency or make them stack, you will hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth of all the hunters who are the only class that needs to dedicate an entire bag to their combat style. Although I wouldn't have an issue with hunters getting a special bag slot only for quivers/ammo pouches if locks got a special shard bag slot as well.

Lulzworth note on ret nerfs:

Avenging Wrath (wings) now causes forbearnce when used.

I'm sorry, I must have missed where the hunter nerfs were.

SJOFN OMG LETS TALK ABOUT HUNTERS

like like like like I want ummm

I want to tame like

seven Silithid

but I have to be marksman

WHAT SPEC ARE YOU

Chimaeras like to flap their huge wings over you while you're trying to loot corpses or mine nodes. Half the time, I end up with my pet highlighted and no loot.

I do like the special ability though. A frosty bolt of lightning that slows the target.

And as an added bonus, no screen-shaking stomping effects. I'm starting to hate all the nelves and dwarves running around shatt with their special snowflake core hounds.

I think he's just going to be a special treat that I'll whip out for BGs. I'll stick to my old standbys, the raptor and croc, for PvE leveling and instances.

I think he's just going to be a special treat that I'll whip out for BGs. I'll stick to my old standbys, the raptor and croc, for PvE leveling and instances.

Making them stack or turning them into currency demeans what they symbolize.

If you don't plan to use the exotic pet much you might consider the 50/21/0 build. Readiness mean's 2 bestial wrath's and rapid fires available per fight for a heck of a dps boost.

If you don't plan to use the exotic pet much you might consider the 50/21/0 build. Readiness mean's 2 bestial wrath's and rapid fires available per fight for a heck of a dps boost.

Sadly, readiness does NOT refresh the cooldown on Bestial Wrath. This has been confirmed.

Soul shards exist to cause warlock to jump through an additional hoop to keep their dps up to that of mages.  They need some kind of limited resource, and lifetap gives them essentially infinite mana.  The design problem is that some players will do anything to stay competitive, and, in a min-max environment, treat soulshards as though there's an unlimited supply.  They're one of those mechanics that work well for casual players but become irritating to powergamers. 

It still reset the cooldown on BW as of three days ago.  Did I miss a blue post?

No?

Soul Shards exist entirely for flavor. The Same reason group buffs require reagents and why shamans still need totem items. Nothing about soul shards is used as a DPS increase or a 'resource' to burn through while fighting.

Summon pet, Summon HealthStone, Summon SoulStone. ShadowBurn and SoulFire aren't rocking any kind of DPS rotation.

That's why they are irritating and annoying. They don't actually serve any purpose other then take up a bag slot, it's just like hunter ammo.

I figure a warlock would not have a problem demeaning people or other critters with souls.  "You're just currency to me"

The mechanic problem with soulshards is that they use ridiculous amounts of pack space versus other classes.  Every other material component stacks.  I'd rather see them stack than just removed.  It makes the classes more vanilla to remove flavor like this, but it also shouldn't introduce a ridiculous usability penalty.

in effect it's retarded to have a player logging on 30 minutes before raid time simply to farm items they'll burn through in a few hours. 

  The only people that don't lose a bag slot to their class at this point are rogues and mages.

It's all a part of the inventory minigame (tm).

Okay - I think I've already admitted that I've never raided so someone might need to explain to me how come people use so many shards over the course of a raid.  Summoning is the only way I can feasibly think of but as summoning stones neither require shards nor an extra person, does summoning get used that much?  Otherwise, what else are shards used for?

.....

How much bag space do you realistically need during a raid and how come Hunters can manage with 4 bags and some of that taken up with pet food?

Okay - I think I've already admitted that I've never raided so someone might need to explain to me how come people use so many shards...

My hunter is only level 32 so far, but I can predict the loss of a bag to be a pain ongoing too.  I'll still want a set of gear for pvp, solo, and pve.

My hunter is only level 32 so far, but I can predict the loss of a bag to be a pain ongoing too.  I'll still want a set of gear for pvp, solo, and pve.  One advantage to the arrows/bullets is that they scale as you lvl.  They have SOME interest to them.  Also, you just buy them.  No farming needed.  Even the ammo bags give some nice benefits.

There's no difference between the solo and pve sets for hunters. That's mainly because the solo set is the pve set.

Aggro with hunters is never really an issue. Pull aggro? Feign death, rinse, repeat.

Your main tank has to be pretty bad to let a DPS pull aggro, unless the tank is horribly undergeared in comparison.

Go for an owl with screech and claw. Screech is like a second growl, and claw is the focus dump.

Soul Shards are life to a Destruction specced lock. They're good for summons for a Demo lock, and we next to useless for an Aff lock, tho they may be used for felguard summons now. And they're the source for group gifts. They are not 'flavor'. The spec that burns shards are not part of a DPS 'rotation', they use them in PvP. Not everything has but one purpose. You could get rid of them, but why not just have mages?

Good to know.  I'll just keep going with crit then. 

Usually the trouble is with not allowing the tank to build up rage/agro.  It doesn't happen often though and typically, you are right, the feign death solves the problem.

Owls don't have screech as of last patch.  Gorillas are the new owls. 

Misdirection is a level 70 spell. Guy's 30 and change.


Fuck.
Well, they gave it to carrion birds. Even better, since those things are omnivorous.

Did blizz add gorilas in outlands for the new thunderstomp ranks?

You don't have to tame stuff to learn higher ranks anymore.

More pally and mage nerfs, priest boosts, hunter nerfs :( and I didn't read the other class stuff.

No more quests for mounts for locks, pallies.  Druids get swift flight at 71 now.

A lot of class adjustments.

Notes here:


http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html)

Sjofn -

Owls are super neat for PVP! Having a disarm is slick, especially since it doesn't share a DR with the Scorpid Sting disarm.

Good to know.  I'll just keep going with crit then. 

Usually the trouble is with not allowing the tank to build up rage/agro.  It doesn't happen often though and typically, you are right, the feign death solves the problem.

If you're a min/max player, the bear isn't the best.  But it's damn good enough for me.

...throttle damage to fight agro ...  Mages constantly have to worry about spiking and pulling agro, so they have to throttle their DPS...

The Hunter never actually stops though, just slows down for a few seconds and off again. In a raid situation it rarely comes up to begin with.


If your thing is to pew pew pew in PvE, hunter's are in a good place these days.



If you want to be Arena king, roll something else  :oh_i_see:


Most hunters will forget Arena even exists once they can rain death from the walls of Wintergrasp.

If you are any point 'throttling damage', take your tank out behind the woodshed and put him down because that dog ain't no good to anyone no more.  Just this week, I showed two tanks where the red fern grows.

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Hunters also have to constantly 'stop and regenerate mana'.  It's called Aspect of the Viper.

The line between your run-of-the-mill hunter and a skilled arena hunter is a massive, gaping void.

I have played against some phenomenal hunters who do well despite their class, even pre-3.0, and I am terrified to think of how much these players will be able to pull off in Wrath.

Hunter can be played with a minimum of skill, but to be in the headspace to link everything together properly as a solid PvP class is really the separator here.

Mage spike damage can pull agro easily if they don't watch the meters.  Regardless of pulling top agro position, even being near the top can mean instant death for a ranged dps'er.  Many times being number two is not where you want to be.

Good to hear.  :grin:

Of course, if they just gave us more bloody bank space, we wouldn't all be keeping stuff bouncing back and forth between alts in their mail database. I'd rather not lose the several hundred items in my mail, but I'd take that over losing this evening's play. I still have 3 more levels left to grind on my new warrior (same as the old warrior, only newer) before WotLK and I still have to choose which alt to strip, mail out cash and delete to make room for my Death Knight.

This all just vaguely reminds me of people who use the Deleted Items folder in Outlook to store stuff. Yeah, you CAN do it, but you really probably shouldn't.

YES! There is no reason for Soulbound gear to be carried around in your bags like some sort of travelling hobo. It's not going anywhere, and you're never going to sell it unless you vendor it from disuse.

Hell, I don't even care if it has no sell price value after you equip it. Just have it go in your magical "closet" so to speak and pull out whatever you need when you need it. Cutting down on overwhelming amounts of floating gear would free up almost all my bags.

I was sorely dissappointed when the much touted "currency" window took a grand total of 5 items out of my bank. I still have Zaxxis Insignias, Timbermaw beads and feathers, various scourgestones and a bunch of other similiar and quest related tokens clogging up my bank.

We wanted to inform our players regarding today’s extended maintenance. We experienced an error that resulted in players being unable to retrieve in-game mail from the last 15 days. Once the error was discovered, we brought down the realms immediately and began working to address this problem, and have been doing so for the duration of the day. Our decision was to enable players to continue playing World of Warcraft before the opening of Wrath of the Lich King. Work would continue on addressing issues with the in-game mail while the realms were up. This is the plan that is currently in motion.

The process from this point forward will be twofold:


      1. All items that were in a mail will be sent to characters in one or more messages depending on the amount of items the character had in the mail system.
      2. Gold from auction house sales or sent through mail will be sent in a separate mail.


We are working to resolve this issue, and we will keep our players informed throughout this process. In the meantime, please do not create an in-game ticket or contact phone support for this issue – multiple mails will be sent returning your items and gold automatically. We greatly appreciate your patience during this time.

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I was sorely dissappointed when the much touted "currency" window took a grand total of 5 items out of my bank. I still have Zaxxis Insignias, Timbermaw beads and feathers, various scourgestones and a bunch of other similiar and quest related tokens clogging up my bank.

BUT MY TIMBERMAW REP!

Seriously, why do people keep this shit? Do we need to put a 1 year duration on non equippable items?

Free spellhaste rings and necks for all!  Free season 2 for select classes!  Partial season 4 for some classes!

It was weird and somewhat cathardic.

7 - 11 is the perfect place to sell MMOs.  They always have that start at midnight bit and nearly all the 7 -11s are open 24/7.  Which is inconsistent with their name which they should change to 24 -7 or Shoppy shop.

Wasn't Cathar dick usually associated with the Bulgarian heresy?

Wasn't Cathar dick usually associated with the Bulgarian heresy?

I am more interested in which chores are "hers", and how I get my wife to sign that particular agreement.

Y'all need to have a soul searching moment here. If you still have shit like Timbermaw hand-ins, either hand the shit in or accept that you're never going to go back to visit the poor furbolg and delete it. :P

I've gotten rid of most of that shit actually, long ago. But the very fact that they've made it all semi-relevent again with their achievements (grinding that shit is HARD once you outlevel it) just makes the point again.

Regardless, it wouldn't kill them to put all those bits and pieces of shit into the currency tab.

I don't mean diminishing returns for quests - I mean for kills. Like killing 700,000 evil furbolgs AE style.

The faction per kill is the same too now I am pretty sure. I think it always stopped at revered, and they haven't changed that AFAIK.