I already covered the disciplines of war and now its time to cover the remaining announced disciplines. We’ve got two more “combat” disciplines comprised of the spell-caster types and we’ve got some profession based disciplines.

In FFXIV you don’t exactly have classes you choose at character creation. From what I gather you have certain disciplines that act exactly in the same way that the class system does in most other MMORPGs we’re familiar with.

As a guild we like to do stuff together.

I’d like to share two stories today. I remember years ago when my guild (at the time) set foot into Serpentshrine Cavern.

The start of any expansion is a rough time for PvP. I only have two expansion packs to draw on here, but they both followed the same pattern

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 10 Blue posts Quote from Blizzard staff Alterac Valley imbalance We have discussed this numerous times. Based on the data we’ve collected over the years after all of the changes that have been made to Alterac Valley, we simply do not agree that there are any glaring imbalances in the map favoring one side over the other enough to easily sway a match one way or the other.

L ast week I’d mentioned that I’d probably be doing shorter, “QotD” posts… then promptly entered into a tripartite look at Cataclysmic stat changes.? Such is the nature of blogging, I suppose.? When topics rear their wordy heads, who am I to back down

A short story, in three acts. Act 1: When I first leveled Annorah, the RNG tried to tell me something. I’d leveled her as elemental, and was happily an elemental shaman, until one day in Karazhan I realized I had a full mail healing kit and 3/4 of an enhancement set – both of which were better than my elemental gear.

Update – Updated the PTR Build info. Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11623 A new build has been deployed on test realms, a couple of things have changed! As usual, these changes are from client data comparison and shouldn’t be considered as final until they hit the official patch notes

World First Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25) by Exorsus The russian guild Экзорсус (EU-Ревущий фьорд) is back and was the first guild in the world to complete Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player) a few hours ago (and before the zone-wide buff was activated in Europe, if you’re wondering), they were rewarded with a brand new Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher .

Icecrown Citadel Zone-Buff is here The optional zone buff in the Icecrown Citadel is now available and will make the instance easier for whoever wants to use it. The buff currently increases total health, healing done and damage dealt by 5% but higher versions are in-game and will probably be activated later . Strength of Wrynn (5%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (5%) Strength of Wrynn (10%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (10%) Strength of Wrynn (15%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (15%) Strength of Wrynn (20%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (20%) Strength of Wrynn (25%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (25%) Strength of Wrynn (30%) / Hellscream’s Warsong (30%) On a sidenote, the amount of limited attempts for end-wing bosses has been increased to 35.

One of the challenges for many novice level healing druids and priests is figuring out what provided more mana: X MP5 (which stands for mana per 5 seconds) or Y spirit.

Eyonix made a very big and very good post on the official forums today titled: Cataclysm Stat & System Changes. In the post he provides a lot more detail on the stat changes we will see in Cataclysm. A lot of the information is a rehash of what we heard at Blizzcon and on the forums over the past few months, but there is also quite a bit of new information that we need to ponder

Eyonix and Wryxian has been busy responding to questions about the just announced Cataclysm Stats and System Changes . We’re going to do a special edition this afternoon of The Daily Blues and get you all the blue posts and surrounding questions/answers that are coming in

Cataclysm Stat & System Changes Quote from: Eyonix ( Source ) As many of you know from panels at last year?s BlizzCon and posts here on the forums since then, Cataclysm will bring about major changes to familiar character stats such as Intellect, Armor Penetration, Defense, and others, ultimately designed to make the effects of stats more easily understandable and make gear choices more interesting.

While we didn’t get the full fledged Maelstrom expansion that some people were predicting, Cataclysm still promises to have some water-related content, such as the Abyssal Maw, the elemental plane of water . And where there’s water, you need a boat. The recent Twitter developer chat revealed that we will, in fact, be using new transports to get to certain places in Cataclysm , and that these transport would be submarines, built by the gnomes and goblins for their respective factions.

You know, I don’t know what you think is so hilarious here. My horns are within the acceptable range of horn size for male draenei of my age and social status. The appendages you are making your inappropriate comments about are merely an illusion created by my shoulder pads.

Before all dragons, there was Galakrond. From him came all the dragon aspects, and his size was greater than that of the five aspects combined

While we haven’t heard much new Cataclysm news lately, the Patch 3.3.3 PTR files have provided some pretty tantalizing hints as to what may be to come , including some new models associated with the Twilight’s Hammer cult. First off, we have a series of portals.

Patch 3.3.3 will bring some interesting changes to shamans. Flame Shock: The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes and is affected by spell haste