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n00bz Now on Sale in Blizzard Store
As some of you may remember from BlizzCon 2009, these awesome little figures were given out as part of the goodie bag. While the Raynor n00bz is a limited edition and isn't available in the Blizzard Store, there are several of them available. They come in a few models like
Ragnaros
, a
ghoul
,
murloc
and even a
blank
one so you can paint them yourself.
You can order any of the models in Blizzard's
official store
!
http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000637
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The World of Warcraft Battle Plan
Blizzard has posted their
Battle Plan
on the official forums, and in it they talk about what we've already seen such as
Naxxramas
, to the Dungeon Finder tool and even dual specs. Then further on down they speak about the whole new
The Ruby Sanctum
raid encounter which is slated for sometime in the hopefully near future.
After that they look even further into the future and touch on subjects for the upcoming expansion
Cataclysm
like the two new races, the world changing, Operation Gnomeregan & Zalazane’s Fall, and all new hardware upgrades that are planned before the expansion.
Read the
original post
after the break!
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Mage Class Changes in Cataclysm!
It's midnight, which means it's time for the
mage changes
!
Hold onto your hats, because they've dropped some (living?) bombs on us this time. It looks like mages are getting...Bloodlust?
Come read the full rundown after the break!
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Druid Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: More posts at the bottom!
Right on time, Bashiok has posted the Druid changes on the official forums!
In it there are a lot of really interesting changes, such as
being moved out of the talent tree into a new and interesting UI mechanic,
Incarnation: Tree of Life
being turned into a cooldown ability similiar to
and feral druids getting an interrupt!
You can read all the changes after the break.
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Hunter Class Updates in Cataclysm!
Edit: Additional posts, as well as some corrections in the original post.
And bright and early, here comes Nethaera with the hunter post!
What do you think, hunters? This is a big one, considering the resource mechanic change, and Blizzard and Wowhead both want to hear from you!
The complete rundown is after the break!
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Rogue Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: More updates! See below!
As expected, the
Rogue post
has just gone up!
The Rogue changes especially have had a lot of people salivating, so what do you think? Do they live up to your expectations, or are you disappointed?
The complete rundown, as usual, is after the break!
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Death Knight Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: Updates and clarifications at the end of the blog!
Zarhym just posted the 5th in the series of Cataclysm Class Previews, and which one does it happen to be? Our ever lovable (or hate-able) Death Knights!
Lots of changes in this one just like the rest, like a change to the current Rune System and the already discussed about change coming to Blood Tanking! What do all the Death Knights out there think of these changes?
You can read the changes soon in our
Cataclysm Guide
or you can view them after the break.
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Operation: Gnomeregan Imminent
High Tinker Mekkatorque has made an Azeroth Bulletin stating that
Operation: Gnomeregan
is imminent. He goes on to state in this announcement, "After all, Thermaplugg has eluded death for years to keep his reign over Gnomeregan; and with the fall of the Lich King, the last great threat to the citizens of Azeroth, the chance of any cataclysmic event taking place in the foreseeable future is less than 12.7%."
What does this mean for us? I personally think we will be seeing the retaking of Echo Isles and Gnomeregan in the very near future and hopefully with it will come the release of the new
The Ruby Sanctum
raid dungeon.
You can read the entire Azeroth Bulletin on the official
World of Warcraft
website.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/3p9/gnomeregan2.xml
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StarCraft II Collector's Edition Includes a WoW Mini-Pet
The StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector's Edition has been
officially announced
!
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?100408
The box will cost $99.99, and will include a number of awesome bonus items, but the most interesting is a
WoW Mini-Pet
of the Terran "Thor" unit! For those of you who haven't seen them, that's one of these:
A few people have wondered—will this unit interact with the Grunty pet from the
Heavy Murloc Egg
, and the zergling from the
Zergling Leash
? Only time will tell!
The full rundown of all the items included is after the break.
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Warrior Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: More updates to the thread below!
This morning brought us Bornakk's
Warrior post
!
Lots of changes in here, including talents to let you DW 1-handed weapons in the Fury tree, and the return of the
Heroic Leap
ability. The general pattern and the goals of the developers in their changes is starting to emerge. What do you think?
The rundown is after the break!
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BFF Report Episode 23: StarCraft 2!
In all the excitement about
Cataclysm
, we nearly forgot about
StarCraft 2!
Fortunately,
Mike B aka Fony
hasn't—he's been busily crunching away at the SC2 Beta, and he has the 1 - 14 win/loss record to show for it!
Interested in seeing it for yourself? Check out this week's BFF Report!
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Priest Class Updates in Cataclysm!
After many long hours of waiting, Zarhym has posted the Priest changes on the official forums!
Lots of really interesting changes are included in this update, including several new spells—such as
Leap of Faith
which sounds really interesting. What's the Priest community reaction to these changes?
The full update
will be
is now available
soon
in our
Cataclysm Guide
, or you can read the original post after the break.
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Warlock Class Updates in Cataclysm!
Edit: Zarhym has posted some updates and clarifications to the initial post. Check after the break to see!
Zarhym has just posted the Warlock changes on the official forums.
There are once again a lot of interesting changes in this one just like the Shaman ones posted this morning. So what do all of the Warlocks out there think of the proposed changes? Yay or nay?
The full updates will soon be in our
Cataclysm Guide
or you can read the full post after the break.
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European Contests Extended!
We've had a few technical difficulties with this contest, resulting in the contests being closed to new entries all morning!
The reasons behind the problems are all very complicated, technical, and difficult to explain (I entered the dates wrong), but in order to make sure that everyone has a chance to enter, we are
extending the contest!
You now have until
Midnight, April 8th
to enter to win for the last drawing! See the links below to enter!
All times are in PDT (GMT-7).
Wir hatten einige technische Probleme während des Wettbewerbes, die dazu führten, dass man sich den ganzen Morgen über nicht für die Verlosungen anmelden konnte!
Die Ursachen waren komplizierter technischer Natur und schwer zu erklären (einfach gesagt, ich habe die Zeiten falsch angegeben). Um allen Interessierten eine C
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Shaman Class Updates in Cataclysm!
Edit: Further posts have clarified some of your questions. Check after the break for the updates!
Nethaera has posted the shaman changes on the official forums!
A lot of interesting changes here, including a full explanation of the bonuses afforded by the
Mastery System
. Let's hear from the shamans in the audience! Awesomeness? Outrage? What's it going to be?
We'll be adding the full details to our
Cataclysm Guide
shortly. You can read the full text after the break!
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Cataclysm: Blood is for Tank
Ghostcrawler just dropped a bomb on the
Death Knight
community—It seems Blizzard has aborted their "tri-tank" policy with death knights, and committed to a single "tanking spec" for Death Knights:
Blood.
The tree itself will contain some new abilities similar to
, and some more of the fun tanking talents from Frost and Unholy will be moved to Blood. Some of the more clunky mechanics like
will be changed, or even removed.
Check out the quote after the break to see the reasoning.
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Enhancement Shaman Buff
Ghostcrawler has just announced an interesting hotfix planned for Enhancement Shamans:
will be increased from 25% to 30% with the full 5 ranks. Blizzard hopes this will give Enhancement that slight boost needed to keep them even with the rest of the raid.
He also goes on to say that they
do
agree enhancement does have some survivability problems, and while they don't have any changes to deploy right now, it is something they'd like to fix in a future patch.
We agree with some of the recent discussion about Enhancement dps. We are going to hotfix a change to the Flurry talent to increase it from 25% to 30% attack speed with 5 ranks.
We also agree that Enhancement may have survivability problems and understand that players don't necessarily feel they can afford the bonus Stamina from the Toughness talent, at least in PvE. We don't have an immediate change to deploy here, but it's something we'd like to fix and a candidate for future patches.
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New Recruit-A-Friend Mount
Meet the
X-53 Touring Rocket
, a state of the art, two-seater rocket that will automatically change between all different speeds depending on your flight skill. This new mount will be replacing the
Swift Zhevra
mount currently received as part of the
Recruit-A-Friend
program.
The model for this bad-ass new rocket can be seen to the right.
Beginning in just a few days, players who participate in the Recruit-A-Friend program will receive a whole new reward for showing a friend the ropes in Azeroth: the X-53 Touring Rocket, a two-seater flying mount that automatically increases its speed as your mount skill improves (up to 310% speed if you already have a 310% mount). The X-53 will be replacing the current Zhevra mount reward, which is retiring from the Recruit-A-Friend business after a good run. If you've already claimed a Zhevra (or claim one prior to the change), you’ll be able to hang on to it, of course. We’ll have more details on the new Recruit-A-Friend mount once it becomes availabl
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Cataclysm Class Information Coming Soon
Bashiok, who you may remember as Drysc, has posted the schedule for information about
Cataclysm
class changes. Some of the information you should expect to see are
new spells
from 80-85, passive
mastery bonuses
, a brief outline of changes that are planned for each talent tree, and in some cases low level spell changes for several classes.
You should note these will not be all the changes we will see throughout the beta period and as always are subject to change. Also it should be known that some classes are further along then others so the amount of information will vary.
The dates the information will be released are listed below.
April 7
Priest
Shaman
Warlock
April 8
Death Knight
Rogue
Warrior[/
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Changes to Dispels in Cataclysm
A slew of new information is coming out of Blizzard this week - this time it's about the change to
dispels
coming in
Cataclysm
. As it stands right now there are five different types of buffs and debuffs: curses, diseases, poisons, defensive magic, and offensive magic.
In Cataclysm, Blizzard plans to let all healers dispel three out of the five types of abilities, with one of them always being a defensive dispel. This will allow arena teams to be a little more open and will allow encounter designers to assume you will have a dispel magic. In addition to this the mana cost on all dispels will be significantly increased, this will cause people to "think" before they decide to cast instead of just spamming the button.
One last thing,
,
and
will be removed from the game.
With all this new info coming out we can only hope that an alpha or maybe even the beta may start in the near future. You can read the original post after the break.
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