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Hey folks, I just stumbled across this post on the WotLK Beta Death Knight forums. We haven’t really had the chance to see a Death Knight tanking, and I must admit I am very excited. I love to tank, always have, and Death Knights seem like just the right challenge for me. Thanks for the [...]

I’m going to put this behind a cut because odds are it’s going to be a lot of scrolling for anybody interested. However it’s very easy to spot the parts that have changed.

Hey folks, I told you I hadn’t forgotten about my PVE friends. Right now I’m not 100% sure that I will have the time and patience to write a fully updated and accurate dungeon and PVE guide for Northrend and WotLK but I will do my best when information is much more concrete.
Just know that [...]

Oh my heart, please this is too much win for one man to handle. MORE PVP! (Don’t worry my PVE friends I haven’t forgotten you, there be stuff coming up soon for thee)
Here are some screenshots of the new Battleground in Wrath of the Lich King aptly named Strands of the Ancients which is a [...]

YES! This (and Death Knight) is the reason I am so freaking gung ho for the Wrath of the Lich King. Even got some images for you folks! If anybody else besides me has ever played a FPS game like Unreal Tournament and Tribes, then those vehicle bays where I can only hope siege weapons [...]

Hunter & Warlock - Pet management
There are 2 additional slots in the stable. Integrating hunter / warlock pet management into the new mount and companion UI has certainly come up already. Let’s give the new UI a whirl and see if it works and then we can consider if it makes sense to integrate the [...]

I guess that video of 5 Death Knights killing everything in Hellfire Citadel made the developers panic. I resign myself to the mentality that it’s not a game breaking issue to have Death Knights level quickly through outdated crap content.
I mean seriously how many of you are going to abandon your alts right away as [...]

There have been a number of questions recently on what exactly falls into the category of Win Trading in Arena matches, and therefore what is and is not considered acceptable, so we would like to provide some clarification on what is considered fair gameplay in Arena matches.
The act of Win Trading may be described as [...]

This should make the wife happy. Here are some changes Warlocks will be getting or are in the process of testing. There are more incoming so stay tuned.
Conflagrate re-design
We are in the process of re-designing that talent. We definitely want Destro locks to have an advantage from Conflagrate, though. The new Backdraft increases your haste [...]

My Shaman brothers n’ sisters. We’re still kicking and it seems Blizzard has decided to throw us a bone. Here’s the latest news on the Shaman class that got some major work done with Wrath of the Lich King.
Enhancement seems to have had it’s itemization problem fixed, Elemental is now something to be greatly feared [...]

This right here is good stuff. In Diablo II you would typically regen mana and health through a slow but steady stream. Right now in current WoW we get chunks of mana every few seconds outside of the 5-second rule for casters where you’ll notice it kind of jump up. Same for energy (rogues and [...]

Update: Vimeo is a piece of shit. Reposted using the Filefront stream Gametube stream (thanks Raz). Sorry about any downtime. Word of advice? Leave feedback at Vimeo’s main site calling them out for deleting all video game movies that aren’t :artistic” to their standards. Douchebags.
If there is one thing so far with Wrath of the [...]

Priests! I know there are a few of you browsing this site so here’s the first word I’ve seen coming from Blizzard regarding Priests. Wish I could give you more but right now I need to finish up everything else on my to do list. Just know that as soon as I free up some [...]

There are a lot of these by the way. Mage talents are getting moved around like some evil world wide game of musical chairs here. There will probably be more on the way soon so keep an eye out.
~Arcane Blast effect duration reduced to 3 seconds, and now increases damage by 15/30/45% instead of reducing [...]

Alrighty it seems Blizzard’s giving out some more in depth information on the official Wrath of the Lich King Druid forums.
Maim has been changed
Maim will break from the same amount of damage that Fear, Entangling Roots etc. breaks with now. It’s a flat amount of damage based on the HP pool of the target (its’ [...]

All of this looks like great news for Hunters. I’m still not sold on the 51pt Beast Mastery talent, but then again I can only assume that all my BM hunters out there are doing backflips over taming a Devilsaur.
Stable slots are getting expanded, on the fly stables slots as well perhaps?
Master’s Call will be [...]

Like I posted late last night, the developers and lead designers have been really busy on the official Wrath of the Lich King forums. Death Knights look to be gearing up to be taken to a shippable state which is a good thing because as soon as the new class has been polished to a [...]

We’ve got some new models for mobs and such but what’s most awesome right now would be these new images of the mounts of Northrend. The skeletal gryphons we saw in the previous Death Knight flying mount posts seem to be generic and might be obtainable for everybody. Death Knights themselves may or may not [...]

Thanks go out to Zach Yonzon for doing the photoshop work and gathering the information over at WoW Insider. Back in Classic WoW we all had to visit a handful of different dungeons all over the world to get a chance at our Dungeon 1 set. We used to call it Tier 0 and it [...]

The developers and community managers have been very busy lately answering questions and giving out pretty solid details on feedback in the official WotLK Beta Forums. Here’s a bunch of the more general posts that aren’t about class changes and such. I’ll be going into detail on anything vague in orange text after the quote.
Azjol-Nerub [...]

Currently the pet/mount tabs are bugged to all hell but they should be hotfixed soon according to Tigole on the official Beta Forums. Otherwise here’s a glimpse at the interface where you can store/choose your mounts and vanity pets. I notice in the screenshot too there is a tab just called “pets” perhaps Hunters will [...]

I’d say this is both bad and good for Alchemists in the expansion. You folks got a passive ability now that increases the effects of all potions/elixirs and such on yourself, but there’s a debuff now for chugging those swirling technicolor concoctions.

That’s in line now with the 2 minute debuff you recieve after getting hit [...]

Just a minor post here showcasing some updates to the visual look of Death Knights. All of us (Death Knights) will have a very distinct blue glow eminating from our eyes and the character selection screen has changed to differentiate the Death Knight regardless of race a little more from the rest of the classes.

Also [...]

I love this very much but I don’t really understand the reasoning behind it. I hope it does indeed make it into the live game though as much as the warlocks and paladins will be drowning in emo-mascara stained tears. Death Knights apparently will be getting a unique flying mount.
Currently the place holder mount seems [...]

This is going to be a very nice feature folks. Hell this might be the definitive addition to the game’s raiding scene so far. There have been many mods and such that can do the same thing but getting everybody in the guild who’s actively raiding to keep track and actually download the thing can [...]

Fantasy Flight Games has just released World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game, a fast-paced board game of danger, conflict, and heroes. Two to four players engage in a struggle for glory and valor as they travel the Eastern Kingdoms of Azeroth completing quests and battling monsters - and each other - in a [...]

Here are a few screenshots and some video footage of Dalaran as it gets the touch of life from Blizzard. I have to admit, my last complaint about neutral cities must have been heard by them because this city is turning out to not only look A LOT better than Shattrath but as well has [...]

It might not even be worth mentioning but I figure what the hell. There was a mild Earthquake in Irvine CA that forced the employees over at Blizzard HQ to evactuate. Everybody and everything is fine but still, pretty harrowing little event on a typical Tuesday.

Kind of playing catchup here to Kenzi but for what it’s worth this is a good little series so far. Nobunaga has been chronicling his adventures on the WotLK Beta from the helm of his Death Knight. This series is an annotated walkthrough with good solid commentary (though a little too much creepy voices and [...]

I just don’t buy it really. 8,000 gold for a ring sounds a little too insane for my tastes. With the addition of flying mounts and city portals, this ring however awesome it may be seems overpriced for the stats as well as the function. However it could very well be the next big gold [...]