Zach first ground out the Battlegrounds on a PvP server on a shaman, refusing to spec restoration during a time when shamans were only brought to raids because of Mana Tide. Man, those days sucked. This guide shouldn’t take us very long unlike the past two weeks’ unexpectedly lengthy detour into all manner of backstabbery and ambushness because, as we all very well know, shamans don’t PvP.

World of Warcraft offers a variety of classes that you can play with. At first, it may be overwhelming for you when you are choosing a class for the first time or starting a second character.

H ey Gang! So yeah…

Rogues. I don’t have a single rogue on my account on any of the servers I even semi-regularly play on.

Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Notes Update The PTR 3.3.3 Notes . Blood Queen Lana’thel is getting slightly changed and most of the glyph changes reported last week here are now official. Nothing else really interesting in the patch as far as I can see

Frankly, the Bladestorm nerf is a minor one, albeit an extremely annoying minor one.

Zach thinks rogues are dastardly, sneaky and will backstab you at the first opportunity. Take this guide, for example. Rogues just ambushed Zach with a ton of useless information.

Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the Rogue class. This week, we discuss the rogue iconic ability: Stealth.

MMO Champion’s got the goods on an upcoming build of patch 3.3.3 . Mounts and pets But first, check out Lil’ XT! Doesn’t your Lil’ KT want a lil’ company?

Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11643 A 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 / Mounts Lil’ XT finally got its own model, the name is VERY similar to Lil’ K.T. and it wouldn’t be surprising to see this pet appear on the Blizzard Store at some point.

I suppose I should start with the obvious: Death Knights. Death Knights… well, they didn’t actually do so great this expansion.

Zach broke up this week’s The Art of War(craft) covering rogues because, well, those rogues are darned sneaky! So sneaky that they surprised him with more secret information than he was expecting to write about. So read quickly.

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T oday represents the last in our tri-partite look at the Cataclysmic stat changes.? As promised, Death Knights are the topic of today’s discussion.? Again, I’d like to make sure to note that like everything else Blizzard does, this is subject to change.? With that in mind, we’ll be looking more at the general directions they want to go. For DPS Death Knights Being a bi-functional class (tanking and DPS), we have to look at the changes in two ways.? Let’s check out the DPS stats changes first.? Here’s the old stat priority for Frost DPS: Hit (until cap) > Str > Expertise (until cap) > Crit > Haste The only two stats that are going away that we had some moderate use for are Attack Power and Armor Penetration, but as you can see, those weren’t really in our top five.? In fact, they will each now convert into one of those or stamina, so it’s all good.? As long as you’re wearing plate, you should be well itemized.? The non-plate items will be tailored towards other classes, and we will probably see less overlap, making those items not as good for us.? As a plate, melee DPS, we should just be prepared to see more stamina and more strength.? Nothing big here

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.

H ey Gang! So, Blizzard has finally announced how the stat changes might look when the new expansion comes out.

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

Breaking news: enhancement shamans get the dumb in Cataclysm . Intellect is gone! Are we becoming rogues with mana?

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 .

I can’t say that I didn’t see this one coming. The Blizzard developers announced at the last BlizzCon that we’d seen the last of armor penetration and attack power, with the focus in Cataclysm being the simplification of stats. Eyonix recently posted a complete summary with all of the expected changes, and there’s a lot to be digested.