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Wrath of the Lich King Class Changes and News for Oct. 9th

Death Knight
Unholy tree dps being tuned down
Gargoyle does do nice burst damage, but that’s at the expense of Unholy Blight usually, which in turn hurts your Scourge Strikes. But we are messing with Unholy now to deflate its damage a little. (src)
Frigid Dreadplate
We rewrote the spell and the tooltip to be simpler and less confusing. [...]

Class Change Wraup & Discussion for Wrath of the Lich King Beta 9014

Alright folks it’s the 1st of the month and we’re breaking into October with quite a few changes.
I’m by no means an expert at all these classes but I’m going to give my impressions and I hope you folks will give yours too.
Death Knights: They got some damage buffs for sure and some complete redesigns [...]

Class Changes with Wrath of the Lich King Beta Build 8926

This is list of documented and undocumented class changes for the latest build of the Wrath beta, 8926. A lot of changes went through and for your convenience here are jump links to get to your specific class.
Classes: Death Knight - Druid- Hunter- Mage- Paladin- Priest- Rogue- Shaman- Warlock- Warrior
I’ll give you the short version [...]

Hunter changes in WotLK Beta (Jul. 25)

Hunter changes in WotLK Beta (Jul. 25)

Talents have been updated and Blues have posted many replies in the official Beta forums.
Survival
Hunting Party now gives your critical shots a 20/30/40/50/60% chance to restore 2% mana, 10 energy, 4 rage, or 10 runic power to all member of your party. (Old version : 20/40/60/80/100% chance)
Potent Venom now increases the amount of damage done [...]

Tree vs. Cadet! Brother & Sister Drunken Duel.

This is downright hilarious. I mean seriously fucking hilarious. I remember a long time ago me and the wife tried to uel each other while completely and utterly destroyed by alcohol and mind altering substances. I think by the end of the night I was laughing on the floor in tears, while she was running [...]

Legendary bow - Thori'dal, the Star's Fury dropped

Legendary bow - Thori’dal, the Star’s Fury dropped

Last Resort just killed Kil’jaeden, and the world’s first - Thori’dal, the Stars’ Fury. Congratulations to Stefang for his new bow, and of course Last Resort for their kill.
This is a bit of a milestone world first as the very first obvious Hunter loot, the first Legendary bow Hunters have been asking for since forever [...]

New Teh Gladiators Comic

New Teh Gladiators Comic

Here you go folks, I’m pretty curious to see what Vallant has up his sleeve. His pea sized brain was reading a Hunter guide (I’m trying so hard to not make a Huntard joke right now) so maybe he respec’d to Beast Mastery?

Patch 2.4.2 Undocumented Changes.

To help clear up any misunderstandings here is a list of all the undocumented changes that have gone through with Patch 2.4.2
Hunter

Scare beast isn’t instant and still have its 1.5sec cast time, even if the tooltip still says “Instant” this is an intended change and the tooltip will be reverted back to 1.5 sec [...]

Hunter Growl in 2.4.2 explained one last time.

Hunter Growl in 2.4.2 explained one last time.

The horse has not only been dead for a while, but the beatings have been so sever we had to kill another one so most hunters could finish getting their cracks at it. Incoming Hortus!
There was not a change to the way Growl scales with hunter AP, the bug fix eliminated growl scaling with [...]

Bug Report: Hunter pet Growl change, Boar’s charge bug fixed in Patch 2.4.2

A while back there were some issues with hunter pets and their aggro building since a Boar’s charge ability was causing high threat and then instant casting growls right after. All the confusion aside it seems Blizzard has fixed A LOT of bugs in Patch 2.4.2
Growl was scaling incorrectly before so it’s been changed to [...]

Hunters: Pet Growl issues.

I’ve spent most of the day today testing hunter pet aggro .
First let me say that Growl and Charge interaction is not the same as it was in 2.3.3, this is being looked at separately by the developers lolwut. I’m specifically looking at the reports that other pets are not not holding aggro as well [...]

Hunter pet food isn’t broken, this guy is.

So there is a reason that some people refer to the Hunter class as “Huntards”. A pretty big reason too, look at this post. Come on Hunters I know too many of you that are badass why is this guy allowed to breathe? Here is the OP.
The pet food sporeling snack. My pet is [...]

Hunter community asks: What happened to Megatf?

I don’t follow the hunter class let alone the community very much. It’s a class that’s always intrigued me a lot but I could never really get into. Maybe someday but definitly not today.
Either way there was a big stink earlier when a prominent hunter named Megatf was banned from the forums and all of [...]