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Here’s my #1 concern as a tanking warrior… Our threat scales very, very, VERY badly. If we outgear an instance, we’re next to useless.
More dps will definitely help — it generates a lot of rage. But we’re still looking at granting more rage based on dodge and parry too. As far as your threat scaling [...]

New ranks of totems/enchants are incoming - Just built all the new ranks of totems/enchants etc., should be up in an upcoming build. (src)
Good to have this setup before Naxxramas obviously.
New Affliction talent inc - There will be a new talent in Affliction in an upcoming build.
Keywords: “DoT” and “Crit” (Well, sorta). (src)
No idea what [...]

This is is actually quite long as there’s a pretty in depth Q/A session.
Broken talents & Naxxramas - I feel ya on the broken talents, these are all working in my local build which should be public very soon. Don’t worry too much on talents being broken as why you feel the class is not [...]

Master’s Call to be fixed in an upcoming build - We did a major bug fixing pass recently, a lot of the bugged talents and abilities should be fixed in an upcoming build (including Master’s Call). (src)
Future Aspect of the Viper Changes - We’re going to be changing it so that procs/hits restore a % [...]

What I wanna know is why druid tanks cant parry.
Flavor. Believe me, if we ever hit a brick wall where we just can’t make druids work without parry, then guess what will happen.
We scaled EXTREMELY well with the few stats we could stack because we just hit Armor Cap and worked around it with [...]

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 [...]

Right now you see a lot of passive mitigation talents in the Frost and Unholy trees for a Death Knight, as well you see multiple AOE aggro grabbing abilities or talents that enhance these abilities that are innate to the class itself. So what about Blood?
It was the most popular death knight spec due to [...]

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 [...]

This is your chance Paladins. For all things paladin and tanking, you should read this thread and keep on it. For those of you in the Beta, by all means start posting feedback; it’s the only way this kind of stuff will change or be addressed in any way.
We are about ready to do our [...]

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 [...]