The Daily Spoon: Friday Morning Edition for October 3rd

Good morning folks. It’s still pretty damn early but I wanted to fit in a bunch of pretty short news points into one post as well as announce some site news for you as well. Killing something like 5 birds with one stone so to speak.

Site News (this is important):

There’s a countdown timer on the sidebar now that gives you how long until my ass lands in California to hang out with Eust and Doodle and Drewbie and god knows how many other complete badasses. I’m making sure you folks know in advance that I will be posting mobile from the Blizzcon floor so you might want to sit on this site and spam F5 when you see me start talking gibberish about developer panels.

I WILL be recording everything on film and it will be available the second I race back to the hotel room to upload it. I’m working on YouTube and Gamevee hosting for the videos since they’re the easiest and best quality and the formatting fits this site well.

For the Moonkin Balance Druids:

Balance Tree not done yet
For now, all I’ve got is that Starfall can’t be dispelled does not equal GC basically said they’re done with balance (src)

For Arms Warriors:

Sudden Death bug
Currently Sudden Death is not working as intended. You are only supposed to maintain 10 rage when you Execute while Sudden Death is active. Normal Executes should still drain your entire rage bar. (src)

For my Shaman:

Spirit Wolves should scale with AP, not strength
From a quick glance, it looks like the wolves are not set up to scale the way the elementals are. This is a bug and we can get it fixed. And yes, it should be AP, not Strength. Pets always showing up in autocast is annoying especially with so many pets now. We’re trying to decide whether to fix it or overhaul the whole autocast system. (src)

In General:

No experience awarded in Battlegrounds after next patch
Battlegrounds wins/losses and honorable kills will not award experience after the next patch, nor upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King. It could always happen somewhere down the road as we work to improve PvP progression, but there are no plans for changing this in the immediate future. (src)

Hand of A’dal title after Patch 3.0.2
The titles “Hand of A’dal” and “Champion of the Naaru” will be removed come patch 3.0.X. You can still turn in the quests and receive the rewards but you will not receive the titles. This is true

You have to be level 70 to gain the title. Hit 71 your opportunity is gone. This is not true (src)

Here’s this morning’s recap:

• Arena Season 2, 3, and 4 after Patch 3.0.2 Goes Live
• Dual Specialization Talent Trees still Coming?
• Tigole Talks Battlegrounds and the Future Shift of PVP
• Kalgan talks about PVP Itemization (Oct 3rd)