Archive for March 3rd, 2009

Quests added to mob tooltips on the PTR

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The Godmother over at ALT:ernative ducked into the PTR recently, and noticed something new: Blizzard is apparently testing adding Questhelper-style notes to tooltips of the quest-related mobs you come across. This looks so familiar that I thought it was an addon, but no, apparently Blizzard really is planning to tell ...

Patch 3.1 PTR build 9637 Shaman changes

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

So, my fellow shamans, we come to yet another PTR build. What changes are in store for shamans? Well, if you're elemental or resto... not much as yet. What's in store is two changes for enhancement shamans. Stormstrike now lasts 12 sec (Up from 10 sec), cooldown lowered to 8 sec ...

Patch 3.1 PTR build 9637 profession changes

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

  A small patch was pushed to the 3.1 PTR earlier this afternoon, incrementing the build number from 9626 to 9627. Among other things, it contained a few changes for the professionals among us - specifically cooks, tailors, and scribes. These changes were of course data-mined by the MMO-Champion people, so ...

New Pet Talents From the PTR

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

  I’ve finally gotten Lass copied over and my client set up properly, so this afternoon I’ve been spending some time poking around on the PTR. Now, I haven’t had much time on there to accomplish a whole lot, but I did manage to get a peek at some of the ...

Bloodlust Timing

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Here is a very interesting theorycrafting discussion on when a raid should pop Bloodlust/Heroism. Should you Bloodlust early in the fight, or should you wait until 35%, when a lot of the extra damage Execute-style talents kick in? Surprisingly, the answer turns out to be that it doesn't really matter! So ...

Builds from the PTR

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I've been playing with the PTR talents a bit over at WoW Head. With all the changes to Survival, it's 54 points deep in the tree to get all of the goodies. That gives us something like 03/14/54. It's difficult to assess the viability yet, as I'd expect a few more changes ...

Will you be taking advantage of Dual Specs?

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

One of the things coming to World of Warcraft with the upcoming 3.1 patch is the option for players to have what's called a dual specialization. As we've heard from Zarhym, they will be available at level 40 for a cost of 1,000 gold, and essentially will be a button ...