The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator to interview some of the top Arena fighters on the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Frostwyrms

One of the things I hear a lot from other tanks (especially paladin tanks) is how much they envy Charge , and especially being able to Charge in combat . “Man, I’d give up X for Charge.” Usually what they want to give up is their shield throw , or their AoE taunt , which of course is not a terribly compelling idea: warriors have parallels for these abilities and charge isn’t one of them.

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

T he lush, green, rolling hills of the Arathi Highlands did little to ease Decedereful’s racing heart as she stalked around Refuge Pointe.? What was she doing here?? With her brother and his wife off helping the assault in Icecrown, she had planned to continue her own smaller skirmishes around Northrend as the occasion warranted.? It seemed that the Citadel was getting all the attention, however, and so her and Abigora sat, tending house for the last several weeks.

I’m pleased to announce that due to the acquisition of our parent company by one Mr. Andrew Ryan, Around Azeroth will now be changed to Around Rapture

Lately I am supremely enthused about my shaman. Fist weapons! Zapping things! Windfury! Turning that guy into a frog! That guy is totally a frog! Now he’s on fire! The best thing about the enhancement shaman playstyle I’m working with (designed for five mans and the occasional 10 raid) is working out for myself how to glyph and spec for it. It’s admittedly not the most efficient spec, relying on a lot of 3 second Fire Nova blasts in big trash pulls, but it’s undeniably fun

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.

It’s that time again, ladies and gentlemen! The Patch 3.3.3 PTR has been given a brand new build, and with it comes a few changes to the patch notes. There aren’t many changes, but the few that are there are rather significant to the classes they impact

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.

The weeks starts slowly because it’s pretty hard to connect to the PTR these days, hopefully we will see a new PTR build very soon to fix the current issues. Is Patch 3.3.3 going live this week? Not a chance

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about exquisite little bejeweled eggs crafted by master craftsmen over a painstaking six year period. Or maybe it’s about angry dudes in plate armor hitting things

From GhostcrawlerI don’t think warriors need more sustained AE threat. You have Incite + Deep Wounds for Thunderclap and also Shockwave….

LOLret is a post from: Aurdon’s Mage Blog My guild has killed Saurfang twice in ICC10 (normal, of course… hard is way beyond us).

Recent In-Game Fixes – March 2010 – 3/4 Some of these changes have been around for a while apparently, during the latest PTR update I saw Blood Nova getting a 16 sec cooldown and the duration of Emerald Vigor was increased from 35 to 40 seconds. Instability ’s duration has been reduced from 8 to 5 seconds

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.

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

So, what’s happening with gear for warriors who like to actually get to kill things in Cataclysm? I’m glad you asked, gentle friend. I’m glad you asked

Well, we knew the times would be a changing with Cataclysm , but how much they’re going to change has been revealed , and it’s quite a lot all told. For warrior tanks, what are the big issues?