Your Questions About Mastery Answered (Possibly)
After giving us a rundown of the new Mastery system planned for Cataclysm, World of Warcraft developers answered a few burning questions that players had asked. Naturally, most people seem to be worried about what this means for hybrid classes.
"1. 28/28/20 spec. Does mastery on gear affect both highest trees or
give no benefit at all?
Mastery [...]3.3.3 New Toys, Blue posts
Patch 3.3.3 – Jepetto's new toys!Jepettoy Joybuzz in Dalaran will sell 3 more items in 3.3.3! Your favorite toymaker added the following to his inventory:
Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot 50 (Companion Pet)
Blue Crashin' Trashin' Racer Controller 40
Tiny Blue Ragdoll 10Blue posts
Quote from Blizzard staff
Alterac Valley imbalanceWe have discussed this numerous times. Based on the [...]Question about the Burning Crusade free trial
The last couple of days, I’ve been wanting to play WoW, badly. But I don’t have a job, so I can’t pay for it. Just now, I remembered how there’s a free trial for the Burning Crusade expansion, and I just have to know…
To be able to play the free trial, do you have to [...]3.3.3 Downloader Deployed
While the patch itself probably won’t go live just yet, the initial download for 3.3.3 is now showing up on the Blizzard launcher. We’re one step closer to 3.3.3, folks!
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Tchernobyl News Network: Moar mastery info!
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/23614404862-mastery-system-preview.html
Source: Blizzard, through MMO-champion, of course.Last week, we gave you an early look at the changes we’re making to the stat system in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and explained how these changes will ultimately provide players with more interesting gear choices and make stats easier to understand. Today we’d like to go into more detail [...]
Mastery Revealed
Cataclysm’s new statistic, Mastery, got a bit of a reveal today. After teasing the new gameplay mechanic a few days ago, Blizzard has outlined some of the changes Cataclysm will bring to the game in greater detail.
"Here’s how the system works: As you spend points in a
given talent tree, you’ll receive three different passive bonuses
specific [...]Mastery System Preview
Mastery System Preview
Quote from: Eyonix (Source)
Last week, we gave you an early look at the changes we’re making to the stat system in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and explained how these changes will ultimately provide players with more interesting gear choices and make stats easier to understand. Today we’d like to go into more detail [...]Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11643
Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11643A new build has been deployed on test realms. So far it doesn't look like there are a lot of changes out there but stay tuned, test realms can be full of surprises!
Pets / MountsLil' XT finally got its own model, the name is VERY similar to Lil' K.T. [...]3.3.3 Still Wonky
Are you excited for 3.3.5’s Ruby Sanctum? Or perhaps just anxious to give 3.3.3’s UI and move updates a whirl? It’ll have to wait, sadly, because so far the PTR servers for 3.3.3 have been less than successful.
Well, alright, that’s a little harsh – better things go wonky on PTR servers than actual realms – [...]
"Good luck clearing ICC without us."
Yeah. We’ll come to that part.
Well, we had that thing that happens to pretty much every guild. You know, you got a couple of really good players – this time, both pretty top-level healers (dammit) – and you start noticing hmm, we go on 3, 4, 5 raids a week and invite them and [...]Blue posts, MMO Report, Comics
The weeks starts slowly because it's pretty hard to connect to the PTR these days, hopefully we will see a new PTR build very soon to fix the current issues.
Is Patch 3.3.3 going live this week?Not a chance. The last 2 ptr builds were fairly unstable and Blizzard would never risk pushing it live [...]STO First Admiral Raid – "Infection"
From my other blog: Deflector Shields.
Star Trek Online (STO) just last week added their first of several to come called “Special Task Force” (STF) Raids for Admirals at endgame. First up is “Infection“. Starfleet has lost all contact with Starbase 82 located in the Sibiran System. The Borg has now taken control of the Sibiran [...]Spirit Beasts And You
I thought I’d crosspost something I posted in wow_noobs earlier; just a primer about the Spirit Beasts (I find many many people on my server don’t know who they are or that they can be tamed by Hunters and the like).
Over here if you want to read it and get spammed by giant pictures.Ruby Sanctum – Info Compilation / Preview
Ruby Sanctum – Info Compilation / Preview [Spoiler]Most of the Ruby Sanctum have been pushed in this patch and it looks like I have enough data in my hands for a small preview. As usual keep in mind that:
This is only a preview based on game files, I could be wrong on a few things.
Ruby [...]Assault on Ruby Sanctum Raid Spoilers
Patch 3.3.5 might be a little ways away, but that doesn’t mean Blizzard isn’t ready to talk Ruby Sanctum, the new raid that will become available when the update drops.
Be advised: if it matters to you, this post will contain spoilers.
The Story
Assault on Ruby Sanctum chronicles the Black Dragonflight’s attack on the Red Dragonflight’s [...]
Loremaster and Quest Tracking
I’ve decided it’s time to go for loremaster and I need an addon to help me track what quests I have and haven’t done.
Essentially what I need is an addon that can take advantage of the new query server for quest history function and give me a list of quests I’ve completed, and I thought [...]WTB: Less Gigantic UIs
Hello everyone. /wavesSo, I’ve started playing WoW ~*for serious*~ (whatever that means) with a good friend of mine, and he introduced me to SpartanUI. (among a handful of other add-ons for my un-modded interface.)My problem with Spartan is that it’s kind of big and chunky, and I really like to see what’s going on around [...]
It’s over 6000!
Right now on PTR Glyph of Mangle is fabulously bugged.
Icecrown Hotfixes Go Live
Another day, another tweak. A month after the raid became available, the Icecrown dungeon has received a few more minor updates to fix things up a bit. While there’s nothing major, there are a few changes to the Lord Marrowgar and Sindragosa raids that will make things a little easier on tanks. We’ll make sure [...]
Latest Nvidia Drivers Causing Overheating
World of Warcraft has been out for almost six years now, and graphics technology has improved vastly since release. That’s why many users were shocked the other day when, after installing the latest drivers for Nvidia graphics cards, WoW suddenly slowed to a crawl.
While it may have been a minor annoyance that could have been [...]