Archive for March, 2010

World of Warcraft 3.3.3 Patch Notes P4

This is the fourth part of the World of Warcraft 3.3.3 Patch Notes.
Rogues
Rupture: The damage-over-time component of this ability can now produce critical strikes.
Talents
Subtlety
Filthy Tricks: Now Reduces the cooldown by 5/10 seconds and energy cost by 5/10 of Tricks of the Trade, Distract and Shadowstep abilities, and reduces the cooldown of Preparation by 1.5/3 minutes.
Ghostly [...]

World of Warcraft 3.3.3 Patch Notes P3

This is the third part of the World of warcraft 3.3.3 patch notes.
Druids
Nature’s Grasp: Now has 3 charges, up from 1.
Talents
Balance
Starfall: The damage done by this spell has been significantly increased.
Typhoon: Mana cost reduced to 25%, down from 32%.
Feral Combat
Mangle: The debuff from this talent now lasts 60 seconds, up from 12 seconds.
Hunters
Talents
Beast Mastery
Ferocious Inspiration: [...]

World of Warcraft 3.3.3 Patch Notes P2

This is the second part of the World of warcraft 3.3.3 patch notes.
Dungeons & Raids
Culling of Stratholme
Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.
Icecrown Citadel
Blood-Queen Lana’thel: Pact of the Darkfallen now applies damage twice as often, but for half the damage. This change will [...]

World of Warcraft 3.3.3 Patch Notes

The news around the Wow scene is that patch 3.3.3 will be released in today’s maintenance. With 3.3.3 (most likely) hitting the live servers this week, I’m not even sure where to start on this patch….just too many exciting changes!
The changes range from small ability changes to flying carpets and two-seater rockets, this patch is [...]

The Future of Tanking in WoW

Ghostcrawler has been fairly active in the thread on AoE tanking, which has been filled with complaints from tanks that don’t feel like they can hold threat well enough in multi-target situations:(quote from the blizzard official site)
Here are ways we could make AE tanking trivial. None of these are things we would actually do, though [...]