Although last Tuesday was my last attempt at the Lich King, the guild organized one last try on Monday night, so we could try to stick it to the sod Arthas just before Cataclysm was launched. So while most people were crowding around the portals in Orgrimmar,
The Cataclysm expansion is upon us on December 7th, and I have been trying to figure out what will be going on when we are all rushing through the new content. I thought I would post it up here to help out any fellow confused players :)New ZonesThis map
Last time in Wrath of the Lich King, I made Wrath reputation rewards post. However this time I shall get all meta on you and instead write a Post About Writing Reputations Post!To write a reputations rewards post for your chosen class now, perform the
Check out TotalBiscuit's video which shows all the reputation items in Cataclysm. You can also see a factions list on Wowhead and check out their individual rewards from there. The good news is there are entry level dungeon items, heroic dungeon
I have finally logged onto the PTR to take a preview at the new stuff coming our way really soon now. First of all, that picture does not joke, mana is down from 18k to 6k. Hopefully these new mana saving talents will help a lot.Shaman stuffYou've
MMO Champion have the Justice and Valor points cost of some new items, and although we can indeed farm Triumph now to get a nice Justice point stockpile come 4.0.1, the cost of the dungeon blues you will be able to buy for Justice come Cataclysm is sobering.From
Having failed to get myself into the Cataclysm beta, despite some half-hearted attempts, I thought it would be fun to make a list of how you might want to go about it for the next beta. None of these are warrantied and indeed may fail.Go to Blizzcon or
So it seems our old currency is for the chop when 4.0.1 goes live, no longer will I be able to look at my Badge of Justice count to fondly recollect those glory days of Karazhan. Details are:The following items are immediately converted to gold: *
WoW.com have a full list of the "final" glyphs for Shamans in this Cataclysm beta I keep on hearing about. Seems we will have 3 per type, and they can be swapped but with a cool down which may be one hour, not sure if that is per type of glyph,
It's finally available for pre-order in the UK, from among others play.com and Game, but not Amazon. The cheapest I have found it is £54.99 at Game (or gameplay.co.uk to mention another).Now given the basic Cataclysm is currently cheapest from
Given the summer raiding lull (although tonight there is a Lich King attempt), Kam has been smashing up various heroics for some easy to get achievements. Zombiefest was the most fun, being that a single Fire Nova pulse from a Magma totem can kill any
So some details of Cataclysm guild rewards have come to light. As I am in a guild and am not a hugely active member, I read the announcements with great interest.Dark Phoenix mount(video courtesy of MMO Champion).This thing is pretty awesome, being the
No, not men in costumes (well ok that too), but news that there will be a 2010 European Worldwide Invitational. Ok so apparently this was announced on June 11th, I must have missed it :SThe last WWI was in 2008 and was pretty cool by all accounts, being
Interesting post:Enhance does fine on stationary fights like Saurfang and Festergut, but drops behind on heavy movement fights, and unfortunately the fight that counts the most has a lot of movement.But that's not a totem problem. That's because
Despite most things just trucking along here, and news of Cataclysm coming thick and fast, some things of note do still happen back in plain old Wrath. One of those is the most recent kill of the Lich King by my guild on 10 man normal mode. Although a
So a few days ago this crazy blue post outlined the changes to the talent system in the expansion. The relevant bits are:If you choose Enhancement, we want you to feel like an Enhancement shaman right away, not thirty talent points later. When talent
Patch 3.3.5 drops in the EU today, introducing a new possibly-puggable raid, the Ruby Sanctum (as well as some privacy-intruding features). Given all the loot is listed on Wowhead I thought I'd take a look at what is available for the Enhancement
Your regularly scheduled programming is interrupted to bring you this special announcement:On July 13th the Raid Warning crew will be joined by some of the biggest names behind the Elemental, Enhancement, and Restoration specs. They will be answering
The Midsummer Fire Festival is here and Wowhead have a nice guide up. It looks mostly the same as last year and as I did it all on Kam for the meta-meta achievement, I shall not be bothering this year.But wait, what is this? Lord Ahune has been updated
Now that Blizzard have released some preview talents to various websites, I can discuss them again, as if some other leak of talents never happened.Most of the Enhancement talents are the usual stuff, I did notice Improved Windfury Totem is gone (cry)
Recently my inbox has been full to the bursting with phishing scam emails, some of which I read for amusement. Sadly they are all not very good and don't really convince me that I have got into the Friends and Family Alpha, or my account is under
So Death Goddess posted some stats regarding DPS Scaling in ICC 25, go check them out. She took the best figures from each class/spec combination on World of Logs. Her conclusion is that "Death Knights are in a sorry state" and "By the
Thursday night, the usual clearance raid that Kam participates in is running (every Frost must go!). On the Lootship Battle, we are asked if we would like to swap in a guest who has killed the Lichen King and thus can unlock Heroic mode for us. It may
are up on MMO Champion. Now obviously these are subject to much change and are from Alpha, but I thought I'd chunter about them a bit, because really how many more posts can I make about my weekly raid into ICC Lower Spire?Ok so MMO Champion took
Some interesting changes for raiding in Cataclysm have been posted. Check the full post here. These are generally to do with the 10 man and 25 man format. Some highlights are below:The first of the refinements being made is that we're combining all
Here are some quick Enh tips for the Lower Spire of Icecream Citadel in 10 man:Marrowgar - Use Fire Elemental right away. Chain Lightning the spikes to splash onto Marrowgar. At the beginning of Bone Storm, if FS is not on cooldown, use a jump shot to
Mage changes are up. Most is not relevant to Shamans, but what is this:Time Warp (level 83): Grants a passive Haste effect much like Bloodlust or Heroism to party or raid members. It also temporarily increases the mage's own movement speed. Time Warp
More questions were answered after the Shaman changes were posted, which I commented on here:Q: Will Maelstrom Weapon include Lava Burst?A: That’s the plan currently.Ah so remember how they said they wanted to alter Enhancement so it would penalise
Are up here Shaman Changes. Here are some horribly early impressions.Primal Strike (available at level 3): Primal Strike is a new weapon-based attack that every shaman will learn very early in the game. Our goal with this ability is to make leveling as
Despite all the rubbish going on with removing our disease and poison dispels (I guess the nature elements don't want to return our calls any more), this little post made me jump for joy. Buff inc!We agree with some of the recent discussion about Enhancement