While certainly we all love Best-in-Slot lists and Pick orders, what is always lost amongst these is how to deal with the every day situations where we must choose between one average item and another.

Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand lives on multiple best-in-slot lists.

Ahh… ICC is a marvelous thing, every encounter a new mechanic, every encounter a different way for a hunter to shine! Today I’ll be talking about one of the ideal bosses to plop a hunter on as tank, Prince Keleseth.

Cataclysm rumours/info now in PC Gamer UK VERY BIG Spoilers In the latest issue of PC Gamer (UK) is a 6 page article named ‘50 reasons to play Catalysm’. The vast majority of what is covered is already known/confirmed, however, there appears to be verifcation of certain rumours first made here on MMO-champion in the days before Blizzcon but that were never confirmed nor denied. Just a note on the source before everyone starts screaming for links for scans

Ghostcrawler PostedStamina is always going to be valuable for tanks, so I’m not sure a strategy of trying to force tanks to gem / enchant other…

Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11655 A new build has been deployed on test realms! So far it looks like the only changes are the ones from the official notes, but I’m digging.

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

Today, you’ll find an interview I did with WoW In an Hour . We talked about playing and raiding on a short schedule. I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to Scattered Shots , written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast .

I recently received a couple of trinket questions via my Formspring account.

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

In the most recent bout of data mining the PTR patch (specifically build 11623), the fine folks at MMO-Champion discovered more changes and clarifications to how warrior abilities will work. Keeping in mind again that this is the PTR and you never know how things are going to change, here are the specifics. Protection Revenge damage has been slightly lowered, it now deals [ 31% of AP + 1636 ] to [ 31% of AP + 1998 ] damage at max rank.

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.

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

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

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.

S ince BBB was so kind as to re-post the blue post yesterday, I’m going to link to him as the source of my contemplation.? Having browsed the announcement casually, let’s look at what this means for Warlocks (today), Protection Paladins (tomorrow via Fuu), and Death Knights (Thursday).? Before we do that, though, I’d like to make sure to note that like everything else Blizzard does, this is subject to change.? With that being said, I think you can take a lot of this information to the bank since it is very non-specific and more about the general directions they want to go.? Thus, I’m going to try to keep my musings general as well.? I’m sure Fuu will do her own thing. For Warlocks Here is the simple summary from the post: If you are a DPS caster, expect to see: * A lot more Stamina. * All of your Spell Power converted to Intellect and Stamina.

Blizzard has given us a bit more information about Cataclysm stats and exactly how they’ll be changing. Reading between the lines it seems clear that the intent of the announcement was to keep the hunter community well-informed, and they then went ahead and tossed in some info about other classes while they were at it

I have to say, there’s an awful lot in the just-announced Cataclysm stat and system changes to take in. But if you’re anything like me, you’re able to cope with that dense heap of information by narrowing your focus to what’s really important: what does all this mean for mages ? Here’s the short list of specific things we need to be aware of: Stamina – Like all clothies, we’ll be seeing a bunch more of it on our gear