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 about a brand-new feature that?s an integral part of this overhaul: the Mastery system, a set of new game mechanics designed to allow players to become better at what makes their chosen talent tree cool or unique. With this system, we want to accomplish three things: give players more freedom in how they allocate talent points, simplify some of the ?kitchen sinky? talents that try to do too much at once, and add a new stat to high-level gear that makes you better at your chosen role

I had so much fun looking at the stat changes for Honorshammer, I thought I’d see what Cataclysm has in store for my Hunter.

The Devs have unveiled some of the important stat changes coming in Cataclysm. More so than any other Expansion of World of Warcraft, I’ve come to think of Cataclysm as a WoW Reloaded, or WoW 2.0

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

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.

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Happy Tuesday morning and happy Hallow’s End, everyone. That’s right, WoW ’s coolest holiday’s in full swing . Or is when the servers are up.

It’s Hallow’s End and the Headless Horseman is back.

Not-quite-level-80 crimefighter Tyis of on Argent Dawn-EU writes, “Ever since the introduction of Pengu and recently Oswald Chilly, crime had seen a rise. The people of Azeroth were no longer safe in their towns from the countless lackeys of these villains. That is, until one day.

As the Horseman once again appears without his head attached to his body, we’d be remiss not to talk for a bit about this creepy cranially challenged boss. Pugs upon pugs will form offering nothing more than member’s souls in return for the coveted mount. Those that get it will dart about showing off their satanic spirit, while those without it will look on enviously.

The burning question about Hallow’s Eve this year has been whether or not the Headless Horseman ’s loot table would be updated for level 80. It had seemed pretty likely, since Coren Direbrew had his myriads of drops tuned for the current expansion

We’ve been getting a few queries from you readers lately about the upcoming Hallow’s End holiday (it starts this Sunday) and what’s new, but honestly, we haven’t heard anything solid yet.

I have to say, I’m loving this Bind on Account gear that has been released into the game with this expansion pack. Not only is it ugly as anything I’ve ever seen before in some cases (and yes, that’s of value to me ), but it goes a long, long way towards reducing the pain of hunting out gear upgrades every 10 levels like I used to do.

Yeah, weirdly enough, we’ve been expecting this a while . They’ve announce this week’s downtime pretty early, and it’s extended: 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific.

A new piece of loot has shown up on the live realms today — one that has all the servers abuzz. For the intrepid adventurers fighting off Coren Direbew they might be rewarded with a Bind on Equip 1H Mace that every budding Enhancement Shaman will want to get their claws on. The mace is an iLevel 226 item and has a DPS output of 171.5 — making it on par with the very best 1H weapons out of 25-man Naxx.