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Breaking News: Kalgan announces Upcoming Racial Skills Changes

Half of this I like the other half is BULLSHIT. I’ll let you decide which is which (src)
Changes that should be in the next beta push. Bear in mind that some of these may change somewhat or entirely, and there may also be other changes coming in subsequent pushes:
Orc
- Hardiness now reduces the duration [...]

Wrath of the Lich King Beta Naxxramas Tier 7 Armor Set Models

Wrath of the Lich King Beta Naxxramas Tier 7 Armor Set Models

A heads up for you folks to not forget, some of these models are temporary until the real models are added to the game. It’s a Beta and they are not done yet, if that’s not obvious by this point then I don’t know how else to help you

via MMOC

Undocumented class changes in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

The brilliant and hard workers over at MMO-Champion put together this very comprehensive list of the undocumented changes that hit classes this latest Wrath Beta Build (8905) It’s a very long list as there were MANY changes which you would do well to check out, here are some shortcuts that should get you to the [...]

New Glyphs for All Classes in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

Here are the newest glyphs in build 8905 of the Wrath of the Lich King Beta courtesy of WOR.
Death Knight
Glyph of Dark Command - Increases the chance for your Dark Command ability to work successfully by 8%.
Glyph of Frost Strike - Your Frost Strikes have a 10% chance to Freeze the target for 8 [...]

NPCs in Capital Cities react to Death Knight Players in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

NPCs in Capital Cities react to Death Knight Players in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

Kenzi over at Death Knight Info discovered this nice little addition in the expansion Beta where if you’re a Death Knight and you enter a capital city, the common folk won’t really take a liking to your presence.
Aside form the role playing aspects of this change, it’s obviously really nice to add some more immersion [...]

Wintergrasp Updates in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

It’s just been found out that there were some changes to Lake Wintergrasp in this latest build.

The losing team of Wintergrasp will now be rewarded as well as the winning side: Wintergrasp Defeat - “Grants the losing team 500 honor and 50 arena points for participating in Wintergrasp.” (Approx a third of what the winning [...]

Flying Changes in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

Flying Changes in Wrath of the Lich King Beta 8905

Before you would have to quest in the Sholazar Basin to get the ability to fly in Northrend. That’s apparently changed as there is now a flight trainer over at Krasus’ Landing in Dalaran. Images courtesy of WOR.
Cold Weather Flying (required to use flying mounts in Northrend) is now trainable in Dalaran for 950gold.

Also the [...]

New Professions Changes in Wrath of the Lich King 8905 Build

New Professions Changes in Wrath of the Lich King 8905 Build

Alchemy
New healing and mana potions have been added and appear to be straight up Arena potions. With the new debuff where you can only pot once per combat period I imagine it won’t be as much of an issue as most think.

Alchemy: Endless Mana Potion
Alchemy: Endless Healing Potion

Cooking
These foods give a certain buff which strikes [...]

New Shoulder Enchants from Wrath of the Lich King

Chances are that these are upgraded and new versions of the shoulder enchants dropped by Sapphiron (the frost wyrm boss) in Naxxramas.

Inscription of High Discipline - Permanently adds 30 spell power and 15 critical strike rating to a shoulder slot item. Can only enchant your own items and doing so causes them to become soulbound.
Inscription [...]

Naxxramas 10-man Class Armor Sets in Wrath of the Lich King

Naxxramas 10-man Class Armor Sets in Wrath of the Lich King

Told you it wouldn’t take long. Here are the class armor sets for Naxxramas 10-man, Now keep in mind that these sets are not yet finished so there isn’t any set bonus marked yet as well the stats may be different from now until they go live.
Naxxramas was just opened up so people are providing [...]

Naxxramas 10-man Loot in Wrath of the Lich King

Naxxramas 10-man Loot in Wrath of the Lich King

Here is a MASSIVE compendium of all the loot discovered as of right now in the Naxxramas 10-man version raid in Wrath of the Lich King. Images courtesy of WOR.
The list is still presumably incomplete as there’s still much that needs to be explored with the instance and we’re not 100% sure that all the [...]

Breaking News: Premade Changes, XP Tuning, Beta Maintenance in Wrath of the Lich King (Sept. 5th)

Premades weren’t supposed to be active today - Actually, the premades being available on the existing realms was a mistake. They are being removed. There will be a specific premade realm. (src)
Premade Realm - Murmur will be the new Premade realm. Premades will be removed from “Northrend” and “Lich King” (src)
The rate at which you [...]

Upcoming Wrath of the Lich King Beta Classes Changes (Sept. 5th)

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 [...]

Naxxramas Imminent in Wrath of the Lich King Beta

Naxxramas Imminent in Wrath of the Lich King Beta

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 [...]

Lv. 80 Premade Characters available for existing Wrath of the Lich King beta Testers

Lv. 80 Premade Characters available for existing Wrath of the Lich King beta Testers

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 [...]

Removal of the Titles for the Realm First Feats of Strength in Wrath of the Lich King

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 [...]

Wrath of the Lich King XP Changes coming in Patch 3.0.2

Wrath of the Lich King XP Changes coming in Patch 3.0.2

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 [...]

Wrath of the Lich King Druid Tanking Balance and Itemization

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 [...]

Discussion: Protection Warriors and Viability (Sept. 4th)

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 [...]

Enhancement Shaman Tier & Arena Set Changes for Wrath of the Lich King

Enhancement Shaman Tier & Arena Set Changes for Wrath of the Lich King

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 [...]

Built in Threat Meter UI Discovered in Wrath of the Lich King Beta

Built in Threat Meter UI Discovered in Wrath of the Lich King Beta

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.

Macros Saved to the WoW Server instead of your Machine

Macros Saved to the WoW Server instead of your Machine

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 [...]

Wrath of the Lich King’s Temple of Storms Quest: The Drakkensryd

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 [...]

Discussion: Extensive Death Knight Changes (Sept. 3rd)

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 [...]

Discussion: Small Update for Priests, Druids, Shaman, and Warlocks (Sept. 3rd)

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 [...]

Yet more Achievements to be added in Wrath of the Lich King

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, [...]

Discussion: Major Rogue Changes (Sept. 3rd)

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 [...]

Discussion: Upcoming Warrior Changes (Sept. 3rd)

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 [...]

The 4th Horseman of Naxxramas

The 4th Horseman of Naxxramas

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 [...]

Tattoos for Characters in Wrath of the Lich King?

Tattoos for Characters in 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 [...]