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Legendary - The WoW Video Podcast - LOLbarad
No, seriously.. lawl@this entire fiasco over the holidays with Tol Barad. On top of that we've also been slipped a small tidbit of exclusive TITAN information that may require aluminium foil headwear, and then there's this "issue" with heroics being too hard?? Good lawd.
Two big things in the episode..
1. What kind of changes would
you
recommend for Tol Barad?
C. Are heroics really
that
hard?!?
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The Weekly Marmot - 10 vs 25: In Review
This week, I put a little retrospective on exactly how the 10man vs 25man split is working out. Now that the general populace has actually some hands-on time with the new system, how does everything stack up? Is 10man raiding actually viable, or are 25mans still the only "real" option?
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New Wowhead Feature: Blue Tracker!
It's been a while since our last big
feature announcement
, so we thought we'd give you guys a late holiday gift in introducing our latest site feature:
Blue Tracker
! We finally have our own, onsite tracker for all things Blizzard! This tracker pulls all posts and threads made by Blizzard posters on the official World of Warcraft forums (both US and EU) and displays them in easy-to-view listings for your browsing pleasure!
http://www.wowhead.com/bluetracker
Check out the full list of features!
Features
Accessible via the 'Tools' tab (Tools > Blue Tracker)
Menu features full subforum filtering options
Popular categories featured for easy access
RSS
Feeds available for all forums!
Ability to sort listings via date or activity
Activity is a calculation of
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TankSpot's Guide to Nefarian
TankSpot has posted their guide to
Nefarian
!
Just like before, you can find the video guide on Nefarian's NPC page, and the transcript is after the break!
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Latest Cataclysm Hotfixes (January 3rd)
It feels like forever since the last batch of Cataclysm hotfixes! Blizzard has just posted an update including a number of changes to raids and dungeons. Notable changes include:
Mage
- Flame Orb and Frostfire Orb no longer break any version of Polymorph.
Flame Destruction cast during the Cho'gall encounter now does approximately 30% more damage per stack on Heroic difficulty.
Atramedes' Sonic Breath now properly ignores line of sight.
Al'Akir's Static Shock has been changed from a damage-over-time spell with interrupts on ticks (10-second cooldown), to a direct-damage interrupt spell (5-second cooldown).
Tailors with 400 skill or higher should now receive additional cloth drops 50% of the time from anything that drops cloth, up from 25%.
Check out the full list of hotfixes after the break!
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Cataclysm Daily Quests: Therazane
The Cataclysm expansion added thousands of new quests, and among these were quite a few new daily quests with which players can raise various reputations and earn some gold. I'll admit, I'm not particularly impressed with the monetary gain from these quests, as most quests award around or so, but I can tell that these quests were added as an alternate means of raising reputations without having to grind dungeons with the appropriate tabard on. That being said, I thought I'd take a look at the daily quests added for various factions with this expansion, starting with the big momma herself,
Therazane
!
The
Therazane
faction (and its dailies) will not become available until a significant amount of questing in
Deepholm
has been completed. You will first start earning Therazane reputation from quests upon completion of
Rocky Relations
. By the time you complete all of the necessary quests in Deepholm to unlock the dailies, you will be Honored with
Therazane
. From there, you can do daily quests for a total of
1850 reputation
per day and you can use the
Tabard of Therazane
to gain
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Tol Barad Honor Reward Hotfixed Yet Again
Recently, Blizzard
hotfixed
the honor rewards for the
Tol Barad
battleground to grant attacking players a whopping 1800 Honor Points for a victory. This was intended to promote actually bothering to attack, as it appears that the battleground is so stacked on defense it was not worth the trouble. However, this led to an unintended and undesired result - players were instead win-trading and purposefully throwing battles on defense so that they would have a chance to switch places and reap that sweet 1800 Honor reward for attacking. As this was not Blizzard's intention at all, the Honor reward has been adjusted yet again for attacking players, now awarding a mere 360 Honor points (twice what is earned for a successful defense).
As you’re probably aware by now, an update was applied to Tol Barad shortly before the holidays which granted the attacking side 1800 Honor Points for a victory. While the goal with that change was to provide more incentive for the attack
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News Roundup: Rated Battlegrounds Honor Change, Traveling Azeroth
Just two little brief tidbits of news today!
Blizzard changes Rated Battlegrounds to award full Honor to players already at the Conquest Points cap, and have also posted a helpful and informative guide on getting around in the World of Warcraft!
We've recently made a change in an effort to promote continued play in Rated Battlegrounds. Now when a player is at their weekly Conquest cap they will receive the full amount of Honor from kills, objective completions, victories and losses while in a Rated Battleground match. Those not at their cap will continue to earn Conquest normally, and will only earn Honor once they reach their weekly cap.
Whether you’re capped and others on your team aren’t, or you’re all capped and just want to keep playing, we hope this change will allow more flexibility for those participating in Rated Battlegrounds.
Check out their informative post on travel methods in Azeroth and beyond after the break!
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BFF Report - Top 5 Most Controversial Games of 2010
While you guys were out having a good time with the Loot King, I was running all over the MMO-verse keeping up with the latest it had to offer. By proxy, I was also absorbing all the crazy crap that some of these developers do and figured it would be fitting to package it all up nicely into one big fat.. er.. fony report.
Any shockers?
p.s. A message from Darnell
regarding Tol Barad
.. he doesn't sound too happy.
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Archaeology Impressions
How's the Cataclysm been treating you guys so far? The expansion added a ton of new things to do, including new dungeons to run, quests to complete, raid encounters to defeat, items to craft and otherwise acquire. Despite all of those substantially more "important" things, a new secondary profession was added, available to players who have purchased the expansion.
Archaeology
lures players to spend the substantial amount of time grinding out digsites and completing artifacts with promises of odd, quirky and even downright amazing blue and epic quality items. Other secondary professions offer an expected, substantial benefit, such as the valuable food buffs obtained by
Cooking
and
Fishing
, and who doesn't love being able to bandage? But
Archaeology
is a bit different.
Read on for Archaeology information, including lists of all of the rare artifacts, and my own personal impressions of the profession!
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TankSpot Cataclysm Raid Videos - Al'Akir
We've got another Cataclysm raid video from our friends at
TankSpot
for you guys today! This video features
Al'Akir
, the final encounter in the
Throne of the Four Winds
!
As usual be sure to check after the break for a full transcript!
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Dungeon Finder: Friend, Foe or Fail?
Recently, a player on the official forums brought forth a strong opinion regarding the use and abuse of the Dungeon Finder. I'll admit, I haven't been using the Dungeon Finder much lately to find groups as I've been solely doing Heroics with my guildmates or premade server groups. Apparently, though, many players are reporting cases of abuse of the system, ending up in groups which are ruled by seemingly tyrannical leaders / groups who call the shots in rude and unfair ways. That is, when they're actually playing. Players are also reporting groups where people will queue up as a majority or tank / healer role, then refuse to actually
play the game
. I'm sorry, but if you're going to sit there and go through the trouble of logging into the game and queueing up for a dungeon, why the hell
wouldn't
you play?
How should players deal with this? Is it our responsibility to have to deal with attempting to kick players (which won't always work), or are changes to the Dungeon Finder by Blizzard the answer? Do you think the problem is in the Dungeon Finder's lack of penalty for such players? Would a karma system
actually
work? Read on for a full look at the Dungeon Finder system and learn to
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Character Transformation: Thrall, Then and Now
Blizzard has just posted the first in a series of blogs about the transformations key characters have undergone over the past few years, especially the most recent changes with the Cataclysm. This first blog looks at the orc hero Thrall, former Warchief of the Horde.
We will see more articles in the future about other key characters' transformations, including Garrosh, Anduin Wrynn, and Magni Bronzebeard and possibly others. Check out the full post about Thrall's amazing metamorphosis from noble war hero to shamanistic savior of our kind after the break!
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News Roundup: Tol Barad Balancing, Daze Mechanic, WoW on Kinect
The latest World of Warcraft news is starting up again in full force as the holidays come to a close, with Blizzard posts popping up from beloved blue poster Zarhym!
Today's Blizzard posts include a look at the balance issues affecting the new
Tol Barad
battleground and a look into the Daze mechanic and why it still exists! We've also got an awesome video of a talented team at USC's
Institute for Creative Techologies
who got WoW working with a
Microsoft Kinect
!
Check out the full posts and my own thoughts after the break!
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Are Heroics Too Hard? Blizzard Doesn't Think So (And Neither Do I, Hah!)
As many players hit level 85 and begin to queue for Heroic dungeons, there has been a resounding echo among the users of the official forums and pretty much everywhere else, all preaching a single thought: Heroic dungeons are too damn hard! Many of these players are skipping straight into Heroics as soon as their item level average permits, since (after all) this is the intended "ready" point for the content. But is it too low? Or are the Heroic themselves too difficult?
Today, Blizzard poster Zarhym responded to an angry poster, admitting that Wrath of the Lich King content was actually
too easy
and the Heroics are supposed to be as difficult and as much of a test of skill as they now are.
Players were conditioned at the end of Wrath of the Lich King to mow through Heroics at lightning speed. Not only were they too easy to begin with, by the time Dungeon Finder came out players greatly out-geared the majority of these dungeons.
The reality is that it makes sense for Heroics to be a true and necessary stepping stone into raiding. They are more difficult
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PST - Episode 9
Questions answered this week:
How do I deal with cliques?
Is Ret DPS just
bad
?
What do I do when people just aren't leveling?
and more!
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Ghostcrawler Discusses Upcoming Major Class Changes
Now that many players are level 85, Blizzard has been receiving a ton of feedback (both positive and negative) regarding their classes, specs and other balancing / playability concerns. They've taken a lot of these concerns, with their own review, and Ghostcrawler has just posted a very inclusive and informative post detailing developer impressions of the current state of the game and various aspects of it, projecting potential and possible changes we'll see in the near future. Definitely worth a read!
We have a lot of players at 85 now doing everything from Heroic dungeons to rated Battlegrounds, and the class design team is starting to prepare our list of items to investigate for our next patch.
Before you dive down into the meat below (not really a pleasant image, that), be advised that we’re still early in the preliminary stages. The patch isn’t coming out tomorrow. I wrote this before the end of the year and other things may have cropped up in the meantime. Just because your class or pet problem isn’t mentioned below doesn
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Cataclysm Hotfixes (December 22 - 27)
Blizzard's had some catching up to due over the holidays on Cataclysm hotfixes, but the latest batch was posted today!
Notable changes include:
Druid
- The heal from
Frenzied Regeneration
was too powerful and has been reduced by 50%.
Tol Barad
- Winning as an attacker now rewards players with 1800 Honor Points, up from 180. Winning as a defender still rewards players with 180 Honor Points.
Uldum
- The
Unearthing Uldum
quest achievement can now be obtained after completing 105 quests in Uldum, down from 108.
Uldum
- Players are now granted 250
Ramkahen
reputation after completing the daily quest "
Fire From the Sky
".
Inscription
- The following reagents no longer have limits and are now available from Una Kobuna and Casandra Downs in unlimited quantities: Deathwing Scale Fragment, Scavenged Dragon Horn, Bleached Jawbone, Silver Charm Bracelet, and Preserved Ogre Eye.
Check out the full post after the break!
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Wowhead's Christmas Present To You 2010
Didn't think we forgot about you guys, did you? We've got another great Wowhead holiday wallpaper from
Noxychu
!
You can check out and download previous years' wallpapers
here
and
here
!
Happy holidays!
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Happy Holidays From Wowhead!
I just wanted to take a moment to wish every single one of our users a very happy holiday!
Each one of us is very lucky to have the opportunity to be here doing this for you guys, and we would not be here—
all
of Wowhead would not be here—if it weren't for you guys. It's your data, your screenshots, your comments, and your forum posts that make Wowhead what it is, and we're eternally grateful for your support.
So who got presents? What's the coolest thing you got this year? :D
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