Beautiful Grim Auctions Guild Wars 2 Art for a Good Cause
ArenaNet has announced their support of the Beautiful Grim art auction, which was established to help Daarken, an artist at Mythic Entertainment, assist his girlfriend Cat with her medical bills following extensive breast cancer treatment. ArenaNet will be donating a number of Guild Wars 2 art pieces to show their support for Cat.
A short Q&A, as well as details on how to get involved are available on the ArenaNet blog.
Icecrown Raid Guide: Lady Deathwhisper
Yesterday,we discussed the raid strategies for Lord Marrowgar, the first boss of the instance.Today we will take a look at the second boss of the Lower Spire, Lady Deathwisper. Lady Deathwisper is the second boss of Icecrown and consists of mainly spawns of adds. Depending on which raid mode you are in, 10 or 25, there will be a different amount of adds. On 10 man, adds will only spawn on one side at a time, starting on the left and then moving to the right next. On 25 man, adds spawn from both sides and in the back as well which is something you must look out for.
Mechanics
Her first mechanic that you need to know about is her Mana Barrier. This ability allows her to absorb any incoming damage and the damage taken will be put into her mana pool. Once her mana drops to zero.
The second ability is her shadow bolts and death and decay which are periodically cast. Shadow bolt is just a single-target spell that hits a random member and Death and Decay places a large AoE on the ground that players must step out of.
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Icecrown Citadel Raid Guide: Lord Marrowgar
Lord Marrowgar is the first boss of the instance, located in the Lower Spire, there are a bunch of trash mobs to kill before reaching the boss. The trash is relatively easy and the only thin you should look out for are the traps on the ground that awaken the Deathbound Ward. These are large skeletal monsters that cleave in front of them so be sure to keep your tank in front and everyone else behind.
Mechanics
Once all the trash is cleared, let’s take a look at some of the mechanics and abilities of the boss.
The first and one of the main abilities of the encounter is Saber Lash. This ability basically gives the boss a cleave that splits the damage to targets in front of him. To deal with this, you will need two-three tanks depending on their gear. It’s also important that only the tanks are ever in front of the boss as the cleave can hurt.
Death knight preview in cataclysm
Cataclysm will bring with it several changes to class talents and abilities. In this preview, you’ll get a glimpse at some of the new abilities, spells, and talents in store for the death knight class, along with an early look at some improvements we plan to make to the rune resource system.
New Death Knight Abilities
Outbreak (level 81): Outbreak infects the target with both Frost Fever and Blood Plague at no rune cost. This ability allows death knights to apply diseases quickly when they are switching targets or when their diseases have been dispelled.
Necrotic Strike (level 83): Necrotic Strike is a new attack that deals weapon damage and applies a debuff that absorbs an amount of healing based on the damage done. For context, imagine that the death knight can choose between doing 8,000 damage outright with a certain ability, or dealing 6,000 damage and absorbing 4,000 points in incoming heals with Necrotic Strike — the burst is smaller, but a larger overall amount of healing would be required to bring the target back to full health.
This ability is meant to bring back some of the old flavor from when death knights could dispel heal-over-time (HoT) effects. It also gives the class a bit more PvP utility without simply replicating a Mortal Strike-style effect.
