Wormholes coming to an Engineer near you (2)
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Filed under: Engineering Just the other day, a fun little potential toy for Engineers cropped up. Wormholes! Wormholes? Yes, wormholes. What do they do? Think about Mages for a moment. They have both Teleport and Portal spells. Teleport spells take only them to a capital city of their choosing. Portals create a way for your entire party or raid to go to that capital city.Engineers have Transporters, which work similar to a Mage's Teleport. They ...
The Light and How to Swing It: Paladin 3.0 (1)
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Filed under: Paladin, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, (Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It, Wrath of the Lich King It's pretty exciting, isn't it? Patch 3.0 is coming, well, "soon[TM]" according to Blizzard. Considering that our favorite class hasn't gotten a second pass, it might be a bit premature to talk about Paladin changes when the pre-Wrath patch finally hits. That said, it looks like more than a few new talents will make it ...
Death Knights receive unique voices (1)
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Filed under: Polls, Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King The fine folk over at DeathKnight.info have posted a video of the unique Death Knight voices we've all been promised. They don't have an entirely new set of voice emotes (at least not yet), they took a slightly different route. There's actually a sound filter over the voices, making them sound echoey and spooky. The females have been described as sounding like ...
Raid buffs overhauled for 3.0.2 (1)
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Filed under: Raiding, Wrath of the Lich KingBlizzard has been promising changes to raid buffs and raid stacking for a little while. Last night, they laid all their cards on the table in a giant blue post. Here's a run-down; all of this will be going live in 3.0.2, the pre-Wrath of the Lich King patch. Almost all buffs and debuffs will work raid-wide -- Warriors shouts, Shaman totems, Paladin auras, and more. There are ...
Blizzard announces Pre-Wrath content patch (1)
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Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Events, Blizzard, News items, PvP, Expansions, Classes, Talents, Buffs, Wrath of the Lich King, Arena Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. In a sign that Wrath of the Lich King is quickly moving toward release, Eyonix officially announced today that we will see a new content patch "in the coming weeks." This patch will introduce a good portion of the old world Wrath-related content and UI improvements, ...
Phasing is the new instancing (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Lore, Wrath of the Lich KingIn an interview with Eurogamer, Blizzard's J. Allen Brack revealed just a little more about the advancements developers have made with Wrath of the Lich King. As I raved about in my post about the Death Knight starting experience, I effused about how the entire experience was instanced, creating a feel of progression through the world. It turns out I was wrong. The Death ...
Sylvanas finally gets her makeover (2)
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Filed under: Undead, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King It has finally happened, ladies and gentlemen. Sylvanas has finally received her true High Elf model in the latest beta push. It's about time! The lighting of Undercity does her a bit of an injustice when she doesn't have a Night Elf's skin, but things are as they should be now. Don't worry, this isn't another fake or 'fan interpretation' or anything like that. It's the ...
Traces of the Wrath cinematic found ingame (1)
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Filed under: Undead, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Bosses, NPCs, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King Just in case, like me, you were wondering just what happened in the cinematic for Wrath of the Lich King yesterday (wait -- Arthas puts Frostmourne in the ground and a dragon comes out?), it looks like we're likely to get some answers. We didn't exactly see any familiar player characters or races in the trailer, but apparently the ...
Around Azeroth: The plan (2)
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Filed under: Gnomes, Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries, Wrath of the Lich King Was all of Wrath of the Lich King designed while watching Comedy Central and Adult Swim? New death knights need to kill Mayor Quimby, some mobs drop ground gears (a probable Family Guy referenence), and now the gnomes in the Borean Tundra are stealing their plans from South Park. The Wrath questlines are beginning to strongly resemble my DVD collection. Anyway, Namus of ...
Ten things I hate about Wrath Beta (2)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Wrath of the Lich King Bah. Beta. Everything I read all over is Beta this, Beta that. There's so much praise going for Blizzard's upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion that it's about time we give it some rightful hate! That's right, I'm going to go through a nasty little list of all the things I hate about the Beta. 10. None of my AddOns workOk, well, some ...
First look at Leatherworking in Wrath (1)
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Filed under: Leatherworking, Expansions, Screenshots, Wrath of the Lich KingThe latest beta patch included the base upon which Leatherworking will be built. There's only a small pool of recipes so far, leveling recipes starting at 350 skill and building up to a few at 375, so it's a start and not much more. I haven't seen any phat bloos of leet purps yet. None that are actually implemented, anyway.It seems they start you off with ...
77 Hunter solos Onyxia (1)
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Filed under: Hunter, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Expansions, Raiding, Bosses, NPCs, Wrath of the Lich KingChalk up another piece of evidence for just how trivial the old world stuff will be when Wrath releases -- here's a video of a Hunter at level 77 (on the beta servers, obviously) soloing the original raid boss herself, Onyxia. There's a little more info about how it was done over on the WarcraftMovies page -- ...
Experience needed per level for 71-80 soars in Wrath Beta (1)
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Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Expansions, Leveling, Wrath of the Lich KingOne of the more unwelcome changes in the latest Wrath Beta build is pretty simply explained: It now takes nearly twice as much experience (80% appears to be the exact number) to level. This has hit a few us on the WoW Insider Beta team by surprise. Both Zach and I, for example, were about 2 bubbles each from our next ...
Floor dropdown on the beta map interface hints at instance maps (1)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, AddOns, Expansions The latest beta build has brought a new twist to the good old map interface. As MMO Champion reports, there is now a dropdown box on the map screen, letting you choose from a few different "floors." What this means exactly, we aren't sure -- the obvious conclusion is that you'll now be able to look at different sections of the world map (for example, ...
First look at Tailoring in Wrath (1)
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Filed under: Tailoring, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich KingLeatherworking wasn't the only profession to start seeing some love in the latest beta patch. Among the others starting to be implemented is Tailoring. When I say 'starting to be implemented' I really mean just that. It's a start. Tailoring especially screams 'I'm not done, seriously!' when you look at what there is to offer. Not that that's a surprise, of course. It's still early in the ...
Warriors will be cooling down faster in Northrend (1)
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Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Buffs, Wrath of the Lich King Which, I suppose, makes sense. It's cold up there. If you've been playing a warrior for a long time, you've probably gotten used to the way your three big class abilities work. Presently, Shield Wall, Retaliation and Recklessness are linked abilities with a shared 30 minute cooldown. This means if you use one of them you can't use any of the other ...
Death Knights gain new rune set, new cosmetic changes (1)
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Filed under: News items, Expansions, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich KingIt's been said that Death Knights are supposed to be a specifically recognizable class, part of their heroic bearing coming in that distinctness. We've already seen some of it with the inclusion of glowing eyes, and now there's more implemented with these beta builds. All Death Knight Races have the option of taking on a selection of darker skins and gaunt, undead, or angry ...
Kaplan reveals a stinky achievement (1)
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Filed under: Items, News items, Expansions, Humor, NPCs, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King, AchievementsIt was just a quick sentence that went by almost completely unnoticed, flew totally under the radar. But in an interview which WoW lead designer Jeff Kaplan gave to WoW Vault, he mentioned a heretofore unknown achievement reward coming up in Wrath that will definitely pass the smell test.Current Wrath beta testers may have been able to peruse the approximately 500 ...
Warlock talent changes added to official talent calculators (1)
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Filed under: Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Talents, Wrath of the Lich King For every major class mechanic overhaul in the Wrath Beta, there's also a few minor tweaks for other classes as Blizzard works on perfecting the new talents and class balance for release. Today, it's the Warlocks' turn. MMO-Champion has discovered a few changes to the official talent calculator for the Warlock. Check it out after the jump. Continue reading Warlock talent changes ...
Wrath's Fetch Ball lets you play with your pets (1)
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Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich KingThis is hardly going to be one of the most amazing items in Wrath to those who clamor for epics and full dungeon sets, but for those of us who like the flavor that those cute little noncombat pets add, the Fetch Ball is a dream come true. The first thing you can see in this beta ...
