Spooncraft

Checking the official talent calculator you might notice a few changes that are most likely going into effect when the next build is applied.
Death Knight
Blood

Might of Morgraine (Tier 9) now affects Obliterate. Critical Strike Damage bonus has been reduced to 15/30/45%. (Previously 20/40/60%)
Dark Conviction (Tier 3) now increases crit chance with weapons, spells, and abilities [...]

With the activation of the level 80 premades it’s only common sense to think that Naxxramas is going to be released with the next build (which will probably be when the servers come back up, or am I the only one having connectivity issues)
The trash has indeed been adjusted. Highlights include:
- Longer trash sections between [...]

Well there goes the neighborhood. Lv. 80 premade characters are available on beta servers. Only existing Beta testers will be able to access them and there’s a maximum of 3 available copies. I’m not opposed to this at all really but it does kind of bother me. At the very least they could fix some [...]

Well, I guess enough people were put off and got vocal about their displeasure with the realm firsts titles. I can’t say i disagree with them either because some jerk who power levels his way to 80 gets a fancy new title which would add a few more dollars to the ebay value that you [...]

So as you know, leveling form 60-70 in Wrath of the Lich King is freaking unbelievably easy. My Death Knight went from level 58-68 in about 2-3 days and I didn’t even complete half the quests in Nagrand and only did 4 instances. The new patch that’s going to be introduced to the public as [...]

There hasn’t been very much talk about itemization for tanking feral druids in the beta so far, but here is a little information on how blizzard thinks when it comes right down to bear tanks.
There are a lot of huge changes in the expansion though. Warrior tanks are worried they won’t be useful anymore because [...]

I’ll give you guys a fair warning as this is a pretty long post. I’ll shoot you some highlights and the rest can be found after the break.

Developers want you to be able to quest, solo, raid, and PVP as protection.
Protection warriors are going to be doing a lot more DPS than before.
Protection warriors in [...]

As you already know (hopefully by reading this site) Blizzard dramatically changed the stats required for shaman to attain attack power. Originally we worked more like warriors or druid in that 1 point of STR was equal to 2 points of attack power. Basically what this did was limit our possible itemization terribly and had [...]

This news is coming from WOR where it was recently discovered that typing:
/console showThreatMeter 1
/script function IsThreatWarningEnabled() return 1; end
Would bring up a still underconstruction threat meter UI. The finished product will be quite interesting as it’ll grant addon writers more accurate resources for developing their own threat meters.

Some people are saying that this is active in live but if it is then it’s not working for me. I ran into some issues yesterday so I deleted my entire WTF folder and had a fresh start on the game again as far as addons and settings and the likes. I have to admit [...]

I saw this over on the Death Knight Info forums and think it’s the coolest looking quest in the game. It’s one thing to be in a siege weapon blowing shit apart, another to be ground pounding it with the infantry trying to hold ground; but when you’re leaping from dragon to dragon completely dismanteling [...]

Blood of the North changed to 3 ranks (instead of 5)
We changed BoTN to be 3 ranks. That will leave Frost with not quite enough ranks in that tier for the moment though. (src)
Talent stacking and big crits
There are big crits and then there are big crits. The DK talents can probably be stacked too [...]

As the title says, this is a very short update as there is little to report. Not to say in the least that this is not significant because I know the Priest one in particular is a really big deal.
Cower for Moonkins? - Back on the main EU English forums comes a suggestion for a [...]

I’m starting to think that just about ANYTHING can become an achievement if we can convince the developers. There should be a Crafter of the Spoon achievement just for me, for getting 1,000,000 enemy players with /spoon!
Holiday achievements - We might do this. We’re still working heavily on the holiday achievements. In the next build, [...]

According to my poll, there are a lot of you. Also I was wondering how long it would take for Blizzard to make Tricks of the Trade since my Thief in FFXI Online had pretty much the same thing as a base ability. Wow that was a LONG time ago, funny I remember that.
So tell [...]

Read them for yourself but if this goes through without much change, you’re going to see a lot of Spartan Warriors running around the battlefield with a sword and shield just tearing up the joint before they go and MT Naxxramas.
(src) Hello Warriors,
I’ve got a sneak preview of things coming up in the beta for [...]

Baron Rivendare.
WHAT?
For those that do not know, in the original Naxxramas (40) the final encounter in the Death Knight wing were the 4 Horsemen. Four Death Knights you had to fight at once and Highlord Mograin (the Ashbringer) was one of those Knights. He would drop the Corrupted Ashbringer. With Wrath of the Lich king [...]

I’ve seen this popping up on A LOT of Horde NPC’s all over the towns in Northrend. I first saw it on the Vrykul mobs I encountered in th Howling Fjord. HOPEFULLY, Blizzard will allow this to be done by a tatto artist NPC that can maybe set up shop in the barbershop buildings. It’d [...]

Not much to report today (yesterday was a holiday after all) with classes but at least it seems they MIGHT be getting the picture and going in the right direction for us Death knights.
As it stands now Scourge strike (unholy) is cirtting for 10k, frost strike too (frost), and yet us Blood Death Knights don’t [...]

Dude, I have been praying for this since Blizzard changed the flightpath system before. (back in MY day we had to fly one stop at a time, no connecting flight paths)
Flightpath stop - This has idea has already likely been suggested but it would be really nice if you could hit a button and on [...]

The recruit a friend program is pretty damn sweet (that video where the guy levels from 1-60 in 20 minutes is just crazy but it’s got a $$$ cost and he had to have leveled his buddy to 60 first the old fashioned way)
Zehvra Mount & Feat of Strength - This one has been changed [...]

I know it’s going to happen a lot, but at least it’s nice to hear word from Blizzard that they are aware of the constant crashes over and over and over and over…
This is not uncommon in beta. “World Server Down” means that something is specifically crashing Northrend. On our end, when this happens we [...]

Everybody at some point has had the Carrot on a Stick trinket from Zul’farak questing. It’s like a right of passage for WoW players. But with all the new changes and the idea that Blizzard wanted to do away with the mount speed trinkets all together; what will happen to them?
The jury is still out [...]

As I have said before in the past, this zone has the potential to be something really great. Kalgan recently posted a list of changes coming to the zone as they focus their energy on it, trying to make it test ready.
Here’s a quick update on some of the things coming to Wintergrasp over the [...]

You have to pronounce it like you’re a carnival worker and roll the R.
Yes ladies and gentlemen this here is going to be a hodgepodge, grab bag, big freaking mix of all things recently unearthed from the latest Beta build 8885 of the Wrath of the Lich King. So let’s go down the list.
Engineers (me) [...]

You can check out the growing thread here (src) or just check out the highlights down below. So far this is the only Blizzard post int the thread but that may change looking at the nature of the conversation.
I can’t answer all threads of this nature, but these are good questions that several people have [...]

8885 Protection: Extremely Disappointed - Awesome thread. Please keep going.
1) I have strong suspicions that death knight dps is completely OP, but I think we can tame that without redoing their trees.
2) We are trying to combo some more of Prot’s mitigation talents so that you have room for some of the more [...]

Warriors, Death Knights, and Paladins have the itemization thus far int he game to be very confidant MT’s however, there won’t be as much for Druids when it comes to tanking leather. So blizzard is trying to work things out through talents meant for tanking specifically.
Feral Druids MT Scaling - If warriors end up with [...]

I don’t exactly know why and I won’t pretend to but it’s a little more than exhausting when the Beta server crashes pretty much consistently every 10-15 minutes. But I imagine that’s tripled when you’re in the middle of a boss fight and it blows up. Obviously these are bugs and such that ave to [...]

I doubt you’ll get weapon skill from it but I honestly in my deepest heart wish that you would. There is NOTHING more agitating than having to level up a weapon skill as a melee class and now that the unkillable servents in the Blasted Lands no longer grant weapon skills, we’re pretty much screwed [...]