Well, I stood in some lines…

and stood in some more lines…

and.. just maybe.. even more lines..

Ok maybe it wasn’t as bad as it looks. That was all just the first day (oh, and getting the badge was pretty bad too…)

So.. Ok, In reality, I had an AWESOME time! I met and hung with a bunch of peeps. Mostly fellow bloggers including Hydra (thanks for everything) and her Husband (forgot his name). Also Tigorasou (also thanks for dragging me around town), Saresa who came all the way from Australia, Brutaliz representing the Rawrcast Show, Brajana, Brigwyn, Spoonwolf, Greyseer, Arrens and more! (some parts are just lost in the haze).

Oh yeah.. Of course.. Nibuca!!!

So.. this is going to be like my other posts, but instead of telling you what I did on my character.. I am going to tell you what “I” did!

Got up EXTREMELY early to get to the airport for my 7am flight. (yeah.. 7AM.. blech).  Got to LAX at 9am (east to west coast ftw) and Nib picked me up at the airport with her “honey who loves [her] very much”. Got to finally see our awesome Blizzcon T-Shirts (which I need to take a picture of after I wash them.. PHEW!). Headed to the hotel and couldn’t check in (too early) so went and had breakfast/lunch with Nib and her guildies at Coco’s.

Next up, back to the hotel to check in (which I did successfully) and relax for a bit. Headed to the Convention Center to try to get my badge, but instead sat and watched the line for a while until it got a “little” smaller. Got in line, got down stairs (the inside pic you see up there) and just happened to give my TNB cards to someone who actually listens! Standing in front of me!! You know my memory so her name is just a blur. (If it was you, send me email or comment here! Thanks for making the time in line seem so much faster). Headed back to the room with my goody bag and then back to the convention center to meet up with Hydra and her Husband for dinner at Red Robin. After dinner we headed over to the WoW.com meetup (if I had known there would be giveaways I might have come earlier). Met a bunch of cool people (and The T!) there and got to talk to the Actors from The Guild (hopefully will have Felicia on TNB in a few months). Headed back to the room before midnight but didn’t get to sleep until after 1am (felt like 4am to me.. up almost 24 hours!)..

Day 1

Next day. Blizzcon Day 1.. WOOT! Headed to breakfast at the hotel (have to keep up my strength) and then out to the Con. OMG. The line was insane (see the outdoor line pics above).. Met more people in line! Ok.. This time they had no clue who I was. But I talked to them for an hour! If you were the 2 I talked to starting in the parking lot line, day 1… EMAIL ME! (Pic of them to the right).  So, finally got in just after the opening ceremonies (or whatever it is called) started. We didn’t miss anything, as far as I can tell, since the really important stuff was the Cataclysm info and trailer. (for information about what actually was talked about at Blizzcon, you can go to http://mmo-champion.com or http://wow.com . TNB will also be having some round table discussions and lots more pictures and some videos are available on the TNB Flickr). So, yeah, went to some panels, lots of cool info, blah blah.. Met up with Tig and Sar and Hydra. Wandered around. Watched people play Diablo III, Starcraft II and WoW Cataclysm starting zones.. I was not in the mood to stand in line to play for 20 minutes, so, I never did get a chance to do so. Maybe I’ll get lucky and get into the betas..

After the panels ( I skipped the costume and other contests), I went to dinner with Tig and Sar at El Torito (mmm). We then headed to the TNB Meetup where we had an awesome time.. Well, I did anyway..   I wished I had more time to talk to everyone, but I guess that’s just the way it is. We had to start a little late (9pm) because of the contests going on. We gave away a bunch of stuff and I’m pretty sure ended up having at least 100 people there total. Thanks to everyone that showed up and made it so much fun. Went back to the room late and posted pics!

Day 2

Got up and had breakfast again (at the hotel). Headed down to the convention center.. This time I was smarter and checked Twitter.. Brig and Tig were sittin’ pretty with a spot in the line up front. Woo hoo! Even got to be on Directv! (We were in the front of the group saying “Blizzcon Day 2 on DIRECTV!” Did you see us (I’m the one with almost no hair)? Did you happen to get that recorded somehow? Send me an email! (see a theme here?).. So, we got in and skipped the first session. Did a little recon of the rest of the show and watched people playing the starting areas of Cataclysm again. Took more pictures and then got seats to watch the panels. I think they did do one thing poorly and that is put ANY of the WoW panels into the second, smaller, room. Bleh. So, Had a blast with everyone and twittered my thumbs off (did you watch the TNB liveblog?) during the panels. Lots of info (go to the links above for all that).  At some point, I might write a post about what I think about them all, but more than likely, I’ll just talk about it on the show.

Went to Tiffy’s for a very late lunch with Hydra and Tig and Brutaliz and more after a brief session of laggy communication skyping into the Rawrcast Show. Went back to the show and hung with peeps until the closing ceremonies, the L80ETC (TAFKAL80ETC) and Ozzy. I had a bad headache, so I listened to ETC and one song by Ozzy and then headed out. Tig, Sar and I headed to the Sandbox bar nearby where Arrens and Greyseer were already hanging and later a bunch of others showed up and we all hung out until they threw us out (actually they threw everyone else out. Tig and I were dropping Sar off at her hotel and picking up my poker set [pic later]).  Headed back to the room really late again after saying goodbye (boo) to everyone.

The flight out the next day was uneventful. Took a taxi (towncar) to the Airport and waited for the flight and got home on time with no issues. Really tired.. But hey, Couldn’t have been much fun if I wasn’t.

There you go. Fimlys’ Blizzcon level raised from 1-20 (or so) in a single weekend. I hope I can go back next year. We’ll definitely have our meetup again (in some capacity even if I am not there) next year! Ok. I’m done typing.. Have a good one!

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bLINEded at Blizzcon ‘09

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Patch 2.4.2

I’ve copied their “information summary” here, but please go to the article for more links to other stories on other sites and also screenshots and such!

Death Knights

• All players with a level 55 character will be able to create one Death Knight per realm, per account. (Gamespy.com)
• Blizzard’s designers decided to start the class with a full complement of abilities right off the bat, figuring that any player that has advanced a character to level 55 would be able to learn to handle the new class with minimal difficulty. (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights will have a summonable Skeletal Deatcharger Mount. (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights aren’t using Mana or Energy, the runes are their primary source of power and are slotted into their “blade,” which lies underneath their health bar as a visual indicator of what resources are available to the player at any given moment. (Gamespy.com)
• Spent runes automatically refresh after a set period of time, much like a Rogue’s energy bar. (Gamespy.com)
• There are six slots in the blade, and the player is free to fill those slots with any given number of Blood, Unholy or Frost runes. (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights also have a secondary resource called Runic Power generated by using your rune abilities. It will use the same mechanics as rage and increase when you deal damage, or slowly decrease if you’re not using it. (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights will have a lot of abilities that cost all available Runic Power with varying levels of effectiveness based on total Runic Power spent. (Same mechanics as Execute for warriors, or finishing moves for Rogues) (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights will have spells equivalent to auras called “Presence”, providing them with powerful self-buffs depending on their role in the group. (One for tanking, one for damage dealing, etc …) (Gamespy.com)
• An instant lifedrain spell (described as death coil without the fear component) will be available.  (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights will be the first class to use diseases as a source of damage, with abilities that become strong depending on how many diseases are already applied to the target. (Gamespy.com)
• “Army of the Dead” will spawn numerous undead minions to attack nearby hostiles targets. (Gamespy.com)
• Death Knights will also revive an enemy (or ally) as a ghoul to use it as a pet with its own special abilities like a disease-inflicting strike and a stun. (Gamespy.com)
• When an ally is risen as a ghoul, a pop-up will appear and this ally will have the choice to control the ghoul if he wants to. (Gamespy.com)
• The Death Knight’s particular niche will be in tanking magic-damage-dealing bosses. They will have an ability much like a banshee’s anti-magic shell, greatly diminishing the amount of incoming magic damage they’ll receive in combat (Gamespy.com)

Death Knight Skills

• Death Coil — Depletes all Runic Power, dealing 600 damage to a non-Undead target, or healing 900 damage on a friendly target. (Curse.com)
• Death Grip — This is the Death Knight’s “taunt” ability. It also pulls the target to the Death Knight, forcing them to attack the Death Knight for a short amount of time. Yes, I said pulls the target; Blizzard is going to allow players to move mobs in the expansion both with Death Grip, and other knockback/pull abilities. This works on players too, so PvP balance ahoy! (Curse.com)
• Chains of Ice — Roots the target in place. When the spell fades, it places a snare on the target that reduces in potency as the duration runs out. (Curse.com)
• Death Pact — Sacrifices the raised ghouls to heal the Death Knight. (Curse.com)
• Death and Decay — Targeted, AoE Damage-over-time which pulses similar to the Paladin spell Consecration. Anyone affected by Death and Decay has a chance to be feared. (Curse.com)
• Frost Presence — Increases Armor by 45% and allows the Death Knight to generate 25% more threat. Only one presence can be active at any time. (Curse.com)
• Unholy Presence — Increases Attack Speed and Movement speed by 15%. Only one presence can be active at any time. This was described by Tom Chilton as the “PvP” presence. (Curse.com)
• Anti-magic Shield — Reduces the damage of the next magical spell cast on the Death Knight by 75%. It also converts the damage reduced into Runic Power. (Curse.com)
• Strangulate — Depletes all Runic Power, dealing minor damage and silencing the target for up to 5 seconds. (Curse.com)
• Summon Deathcharger — Allows the Death Knight to summon a Deathcharger mount. This mount is acquired through quests, similar to the Paladin and Warlock land mounts.  (Curse.com)
• Raise Dead — Raises a nearby corpse to fight for the Death Knight for 2 minutes. If used on a player corpse, the player has the option to play as the ghoul for the duration — gaining access to the ghoul’s abilities. (Curse.com)
         The ghoul has the ability to do the following:
                Leap to the target
                Rend for decent damage-over-time
                Stun target, and of course more

Raids & Dungeons

• All raid dungeons in Wrath of the Lich King will have both 10-person and 25-person versions. So at level 80, every major encounter and every big boss fight can be experienced with a group of 10. (Gamespy.com)
• 25-person raiding progression is not dependent on 10-person raiding progression. (Gamespy.com)
• There will be no attunements or keys to obtain, and you won’t be locked out of a 25-person instance if you decide to attempt the 10-person version, and vice-versa. (Gamespy.com)
• 25-person raids will earn more, higher-level rewards, in what should be the equivalent of one “tier” of loot quality. (Gamespy.com)
• A new instance focused on the different dragonflights “The Chamber of Aspects” might be added to the game, but this isn’t confirmed yet. (Gamespy.com)
• Zero raid bosses have been designed at this point. (Gamespy.com)

Others

• Players will unlock their flying mount at level 77. (Gamespy.com)
• You can use your Outland flying mount, and new flying mounts will be available. (Gamespy.com)

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Wrath of the Preview

And here it is!  For US realms.. The patch is on it’s way today today today today.. What is in patch 2.4 you ask????   Well, as of this moment, http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/ IS NOT UPDATED. But…  The last PTR patch notes are available at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html .

From those patch notes…. I include:

-  The Sunwell Isle is now available for play.  This area includes a new
   quest hub and 5-player and 25-player instances.
-  The combined forces of Shattrath have launched an attack on the Isle
   of Quel’Danas, to confront Kael’thas and the Legion at the Sunwell
   and surrounding areas.  Players will now be able to gain reputation
   with the Shattered Sun Offensive and participate in a new set of
   daily quests.

Ok.. There is just WAAAY too much in this file to include… Sooo… I have the Patch.txt available to download… Enjoy!

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Antici… pation

Ok.. Here we go..

• Sunwell Isle is a new Area and will have 5-player and 25-player instances.  There is a faction to grind here and a ton of new daily quests supposedly.
• They are making radical changes to the Combat Log. Mainly this will effect quite a few add-ons, but I am sure that a large number of add-on writers will put some effort into fixing their add-ons in the PTR.
• There will be a portal to COT from Shattrath!
• HUNTER STUFF
• Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will no longer cause animation issues.
• Casting Flare while in any way not visible, will no longer cause your flare to be invisible to other players.
• Hunter’s Mark: Hunters with Improved Hunter’s Mark will now properly overwrite Hunter’s Mark cast by Hunters without the talent.
• The stamina tooltip for hunter pets will now display the proper health increase.
• PRIEST STUFF
• Fear Ward is now usable while in Shadow form.
• Inner Focus: Chastise now benefits from Inner Focus. In addition, Starshards no longer consumes Inner Focus.
• Power Word: Shield: Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
• Prayer of Mending: This spell will now fade from players who leave or enter an instance, change continents, or exit the game.
• Reflective Shield: The reactive damage from this talent no longer breaks crowd control affects which break on taking damage.
• Shadowguard: No longer consumes the charge of Inner Focus when triggered.
• Silent Resolve:This talent is now affects Surge of Light, Power Infusion, Inspiration, Spirit Tap, Blackout, Levitate, Shackle Undead, Touch of Weakness, Hex of Weakness, and Symbol of Hope.
• Touch of Weakness: No longer consumes the charge of Inner Focus when triggered. It will also function properly even when the Priest with Touch of Weakness on is silenced or stunned.
• Vampiric Touch: Casting lower ranks of this spell is now properly penalized like other healing and damage effects.
• All 25-player raid bosses have had their cash drops increased!
• All 25- player raid bosses that drop set tokens will now drop an additional token!
• Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter Hyjal.
• Players will no longer require an attunement quest to enter the Black Temple.
• Players will now be able to purchase level 70 Superior quality PvP items from reputation vendors.

…. And lots lots more.. I would peruse the patch notes if I were you..

This is looking to be a pretty awesome patch.  Since it looks like Mythos will finally be moving forward on 25-man raids [with help], some of the 25-man changes are lookin’ mighty nice..

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The test realm patch notes are available at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The main patch notes are available at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

MMO-Champion Always has VERY, VERY good coverage of Patches.

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WoW – Patch 2.4

I know I am most excited about a couple of things.  The increased speed of leveling from 20-60 is probably the most interesting to me.  While, Zul’Aman is very exciting, I have not been able to get any Alts up to Raiding status because I am just too lazy .  The decreased XP requirement and increased Quest XP will speed this up significantly. 

They also added a new Quest Hub in Dustwallow (I think).  This is for 30-40 I believe and will supplement or replace some of the Stranglethorn quests for those levels.  I am also happy about the new Flight Path to the north end of Stranglethorn!

WowWiki has a page that has a good rundown of the changes, but I’ll still talk about them here

Guild banks are being added which is kinda cool. I’m not sure we use our guild bank that much.. At least, I don’t   Maybe i should ask if we have any lower level crap

So, really like this:

New Violet Eye ammo. [Mysterious Shell] and [Mysterious Arrow] which can be purchased for 80s (Exalted with Violet Eye) from Aldor Rise / Scryer’s Tier or outside Karazhan. Provide 46.5 DPS.

I like that you can purchase all the ammo from the tiers in Shat.  That was a big pain to have to fly to pick up ammo all the time.

•  Arcane Shot (Ranks 6 and above) now dispel 1 Magic effect in addition to their normal damage.
• Explosive Trap: The initial damage dealt by this trap is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.
• Immolation Trap: The total damage dealt by this trap is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.
• Serpent Sting: The total damage dealt by this sting is now also increased by 10% of your ranged attack power.
• Steady Shot: Tooltip clarified to indicate base weapon damage is used in the damage calculation.
• Trueshot Aura (Marksmanship) no longer costs mana to cast and will last until cancelled.
• Aimed Shot (Marksmanship) now reduces healing done to that target by 50% for 10 seconds.

Yeah, I know.. I’m concentrating on Hunter stuff.. I always do   Once my priest is lvl 70, I’ll include that stuff too.. I just don’t really understand the relevance of the changes at this point.

Leatherworking stuff:

• Stylin’ Hats no longer require Zhevra leather.
• Greatly increased the radius of the Drums of Battle, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
• Removed the casting time from the Drums of Battle, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
• Slightly increased the radius of Drums of Panic.
• Reduced the casting time of Drums of Panic and added a global cooldown equal to the casting time.
• Drums of Speed and Drums of Restoration are no longer world drop recipes, and can now be obtained from the Mag’har and Kurenai faction vendors with revered standing.
• A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to create glove reinforcements, providing a substantial armor bonus.
• Reinforcements are a permanent enchantment and cannot be placed with other permanent enchantments.
• New recipes are available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make 20 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
• New recipes are available from the Honor Hold, Thrallmar, and Lower City quartermasters to create 24 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
• Increased the range at which you can gain leatherworking skill from crafting drums.
• Reduced the faction required to obtain Drums of Battle and Drums of Panic.
• Drums can now be used while shapeshifted.
• A new recipe is available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make a 20 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.
• The ogres in the barrier hills are rumored to have a pattern for a 24 slot bag to hold leatherworking supplies.

Hmm.. I guess i will have to work on Kurenai faction for those Drums   I like the larger quivers, that will be really nice.  Not sure I care about the leatherworking bags..  Might be nice if you can put them in your bank though…

Bosses in Kara and Zul’Aman will drop Badges of Justice and there are many more things to buy with them that look interesting.  We haven’t really been running any heroics for a while, so this will be nice.

There are some new Daily quests and some changes to the UI (Which I am sure will break my addons.. yay).  New macro commands (/targetlastenemy, /targetlastfriend, /targetexact) will be nice to take a look at for new/updated macros.

They are also increasing the loot from lower level instances (the quality of it anyway) and making more of the elites around the world into non-elite.

There is SOOO much in this patch, that I can’t really go into it all.  Go ahead to that WowWiki page above and check it out.  They did a good job of breaking them down.

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The Ultimate Patch – 2.3

Some interesting stuff that we didn’t know already:

  Leatherworking

• Greatly increased the radius of the Drums of Battle, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
• Removed the casting time from the Drums of Battle, Drums of Restoration, Drums of Speed, and Drums of War.
• New Glove permanent armor kits for +armor
• New recipes are available from Grand Master leatherworking trainers to make 20 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
• New recipes are available from the Honor Hold, Thrallmar, and Lower City quartermasters to create 24 slot quivers and ammo pouches.
• Drums of Speed and Drums of Restoration are no longer world drop recipes, and can now be obtained from the Mag’har and Kurenai faction vendors with revered standing.

Other Stuff

• Ogri’la Faction Vendor: This vendor now sells potions useable anywhere for a large number of Apexis Shards.
• Lockboxes will now display the numerical lockpicking skill required to open them.
• All old world dungeons have had their loot revisited. Players will now find that all loot dropped inside instances will be of Superior quality.
• Players can now track fishing nodes. This ability is learned from a journal sometimes found in crates obtained through fishing.
• Engineers can now create incredible new flying machines! Find Niobe Whizzlespark in Shadowmoon Valley to learn these fantastic new plans.
• Plans for a new Field Repair Bot are rumored to belong to a select few Gan’arg Analyzers in Blade’s Edge Mountains.
• Duration of wizard and mana oils created by enchanters has been increased.

Vendor Discounts: All vendors with an associate faction now give discounts at all levels above neutral.

• Friendly: 5% discount
• Honored: 10% discount
• Revered: 15% discount
• Exalted: 20% discount
• A new flight path has been added to the Rebel Camp in northern Stranglethorn Vale.

Well.. there are soooo many more.. Go check out the patch notes above.  I’m really looking forward to this patch.  Only thing I am not looking forward to, as usual, is the expected breakage of addons.. Hopefully addon makers will have time to create 2.3 compatible addons using the test realm before it goes to production.

If anyone goes and checks out the test realms, let me know.  I want to know what you think of this stuff and what to expect..

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PTR 2.3 – I Hunger

Main info is:

• Reduce the amount of experience needed each level by approximately 15% between levels 20 and 60
• Experience gained for completing quests (on average) between levels 30 and 60 is being increased. The increase becomes more substantial as you make your way towards 60.
• Many outdoor elite mobs will become non-elites. An example would be Stromgarde Keep in Arathi Highlands.
• Added approximately 60 new quests in Dustwallow Marsh. This should help players who find themselves lacking quests in the 30-40 range. The Steamwheedle Cartel is building the new town of Mudsprocket in south-west Dustwallow Marsh, so you’ll have to wait until construction is complete to learn more about these changes.
• In addition to increasing quest experience for dungeon quests, we’re also upgrading all pre-bc dungeon boss drops to blue quality items.

This looks to be a pretty significant patch for 20-60 range grind.  Having recently started back leveling my alts (Got Fhuun to level 42!), I’m looking forward to this patch just for this.

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More 2.3 Leveling Info

Fhuun is now almost up to 41.  Woot!

Some more 2.3 stuff I saw on MMO-Champion that has me happy-happy:

• All items of the auction house will be sorted server side, basically it means that when you’ll try to sort a particular item by price, it will sort it through all page, not only the current one.
• Level 20-60 Quest EXP has been increased, while EXP to Level has been decreased (Source)
• New daily quests are available in the Lower City for 5 man heroic and non-heroic dungeons (Once at a time, a bit like battlegroundw weekends, each day you will get quests for a different dungeons). The following non-heroic dungeons are concerned : Shattered Halls, Steamvault, Shadow Labyrinth, Black Morass, Botanica, Mechanar, and Arcatraz. All dungeons will get quests in Heroic mode. If you’re getting the non-heroic and the heroic quest on the same day for the same dungeon, you can complete both by running it in heroic mode once. Non heroic quests will reward you with a Ethereum Prison Key (various reputation), gold, and reputation with the Consortium. Heroic quests will give you 2 Badges of Justice, gold, and reputation with the Consortium.
• Heroic Badges drop from Zul’aman and Karazhan bosses.
• The amount of items available from the Heroic Badges vendor has been considerably increased.
• Zul’Aman will be on a quicker reset than 7 days (some might call this "casual")
• Zul’Aman will be MORE difficult than Karazhan and drop better loot
• You can buy now buy Super Mana and Health Potions from Ogri’la quartermaster. They’re usable everywhere and costs 50 Apexis Shard.
• Mailboxes are upgraded to handle up to 12 items per mail. (Source)
• +Healing bonus will give 33% of spell damage as well (1500 Healing bonus will give you 500 Spell damage) (Source)

Of course, these are not hunter specific but all full of goodness anyway..

I know some healers out there that will be happy about the +spell damage from healing gear.. Making them more viable for questing and still using the same gear for healing.

Those Instance daily quests look pretty cool too and, of course, the MOST interesting piece is the 20-60 Quest XP increased, which XP to level decreased.  The sooner that can get out, the better..   I really want to get Fhuun up to Outlands asap and Fyra (my Druid) and Freez (my rogue) up to 35 to get the next level of their crafting skills. 

This weekend I was out of town so I didn’t get to play much. The internet connection in the hotel room was pretty bad.  I played a bit last night working on Fhuun and also did some Ogri’la daily quests with Fimlys.

That’s about it.  I think the Guild is trying Nightbane again tonight.  Hopefully they can take him down and we can officially say we can "clear" Karazhan.  I’m hoping we can figure out a way to get enough people to go try Gruul’s Lair again.  We tried it once as a guild but unfortunately we have lost quite a few people since then.

Well, that’s it for me. Keep it real virtual.

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Elephantes

Hunters

• Trueshot Aura (Marksmanship) no longer costs mana to cast and will last until cancelled.
• Serpent Sting, Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap now all gain additional damage based on 10% of your ranged attack power.
• Wyvern Sting (Survival) is now instant cast and has a maximum duration of 10 seconds in PvP.
• 20 and 24 Slots ammo pouches have been added (Source)
• Arcane Shot (Rank 6+) will now dispel 1 Magic effect in addition to damage (Source)

So, what do you think?  This list might change, of course, but if they have completed internal testing, I would be surprised if it changes significantly.

I definitely like the larger ammo pouches… The Arcane Shot change doesn’t seem like much except for PvP.  I don’t have Wyvern String, but looks interesting.  I am coming out in support of the additional 10% RAP damage.. Like that one!  And the Trueshot Aura stuff just makes sense (no more having to make sure I keep recasting it).

Tell me what you think?  There are, of course, other changes for other classes.  At some point I’ll stop concentrating on the Hunter changes, but I’m mainly a hunter, so there!

If you click the link to MMO-Champion above, you’ll see all the stuff they have gleaned from the boards and other posts..

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Patch 2.3 Musings