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Consider this a slight preview since I was planning on doing a daily special on each of the classes and everything we know so far of them in the expansion. But considering how hectic things are getting right now (launching a new site with real work and at the same time working on the improvements [...]

So this is just for the Hutners out there. Blizzard clearly doesn’t have to explain themselves when they make a class change, hell most of the time they don’t and say something like “The developers felt this change had to go through and we don’t have any plans at this time to XYZ”
However with the [...]

A bunch of my hunter friends are going nuts over this new change in Patch 2.4.2 which I really don’t seem to understand. Obviously the change to Scare Beast is amazing. It’s now instant cast, has a 30yrd too, basically they’re right; hunters might become the anti-druid in Arena combat. But druids are getting all [...]

As in the live realms, there is a problem with certain classes being extremely cookie cutter in the Arena Tournament. Frankly you’re going to see the standard rock/paper/scissors makeup with a resto druid, mace rogue, and so forth. Given that all players have the same access to gear and such it really is coming down [...]

I’m not that big a fan of the whole Arena thing. It’s fun and I can see the obsession it’s garnered by many players since it’s inception; but I just can’t seem to get into it. When I think Arenas I think spectators, special events, I think Gladiator.
Vhairi released a bunch of interesting stats on [...]

So people are starting to get a little riled up with the whole class balance thing again. According to Bornakk nobody is going to be left in the cold again (like Shaman were -cough-) when WOTLK starts making class changes.

For all my fellow shaman, the priests, paladins, rogues, mages, and the rest of you; seems like we’re not going to get anything major until the expansion comes out.
We currently don’t have any plans to make big changes to any class before Wrath of the Lich King. (src)
It sucks but it makes sense. Before Burning [...]

The question was: Has your class been broken as a result of Patch 2.4? I was pretty surprised at all the QQ and the results of the poll.
39% said Yes, the patch has broken my class.
26% said No, the patch hasn’t broken my class.
35% like me were thinking Arby’s and couldn’t comment otherwise.
I severely doubt [...]

Alrighty folks a new poll is up and will be running for a month.
There’s been a lot of QQing going on and so many changes that it makes my head spin regarding class balance in Patch 2.4. Specifically Warlocks, Druids, and Shaman have been on the rampaging rollercoaster of nerfs/buffs for a bit now and [...]

As with all hybrid classes, Moonkin druids are finding themselves in a weird position. Druids particularly fill every role in the game. Their healing is unique and desired in most situations, they can tank AND effectively DPS in the same talent tree with only a few item adjustments, and their caster ranged DPS tree provides [...]

Drysc has been going on lately trying to reason with people about PVP and overall spec viability in the game. It feels good to see Blizzard going a little more in depth as to the method behind their mayhem when it comes down to class balancing and the philosophy around it.
I do pretty well in [...]

I’ll just quote the forum post directly as it sums everything up nicely.
Q u o t e:
I was just curious as to why Blizzard always waits until a major patch to release fixes/changes that they have stated are going to come out? I’m not talking about things like class balance issues that constantly change on [...]

Kalgan made an appearance on the Warlock forums to explain a little bit as to the drama going on with Lifetap and how Blizzard was knocking around locks in general. He goes into further detail as well about arena statistics worth reading.

Normalized from the Skullcrusher US server posted this question (one of many I soon found out) :
I know there has been a tremendous amount of QQing from the Warlock community regarding the Lifetap issue. Something i would like to hear is a CM tell everyone why they decided to change Lifetap to it’s current [...]

Whenever a boss is taken down and the loot is looked at I always wonder; where the hell he or she get this junk?
Ignoring the need for there to be balanced loot distribution, I think that it’d be very interesting if Blizzard started looking at bosses and bringing in a deeper sense of realism to [...]

I stumbled across this video while checking if my favorite machinmators had released anything new. I am a major fan of Oblivious Films and their work with The Grind series and the Halloween special they did in June.

According to Nethaera, they don’t want to put too much class changes in this 2.4 patch, she also reveals the possibility of patching between Patch 2.4 and Wrath of the Lich King release. (Source)
I’m going to be a bit cautious in what I say in this regard. Will there be some changes to classes? Yes, [...]