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Ulduar PTR Testing The Iron Council Now testing on PTRs ... Stay tuned! Stream <div align="center"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="550" height="440" id="utv599153"><param name="flashvars" value="viewcount=true&autoplay=false&brand=embed"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/507034"/><embed flashvars="viewcount=true&autoplay=false&brand=emb ed" width="550" height="440" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv599153" name="utv_n_522775" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/1/507034" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/search/recorded/tag/Webcam/most_viewers/1" style="padding:2px 0px 4px;width:400px;background:#FFFFFF;display:block;c olor:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;text-decoration:underline;text-align:center;" target="_blank">Free Webcam Chat at Ustream</a></div> Thorim Health Points - 11M The fight takes place in The Clash of Thunder, an arena overwatched by Thorim himself. As you enter the arena you will see a Jormungar Behemoth (~1.2M HP) fighting a captured alliance/horde (opposing faction) team composed of 1 tank, 1 healer, and 3 damage dealers. Killing them is fairly easy, just make sure you take care of the AoE healing from the healer while fighting the NPC and try to avoid the large poison breath while fighting the Jormungar. Once the NPCs and the Jormungar are dead, a lot of constructs (melee, casters, and healers) will jump into the arena from the stands and you will have to handle them with only one part of your raid while Thorim throws Stormhammers at them. He will also randomly activates the lightning orbs surrouding the arena, they will deal strong AoE damage to anyone near as soon as they are activated: run away from them! The 2nd part of the raid will have to go through the hallway to the left of the Arena and fight its way to Thorim. This hallways is also full of constructs and will also have you deal with two mini bosses (about 5M HP each), you only have 5 minutes to reach Thorim before he goes berserk and kills your raid. When Thorim is pulled by the hallway team, he will jump into the arena and the last part of the fight will begin. He's got 11M Health Points and hits a well geared tank for 8k damage but will also use two abilities: the first one is an <a href="http://thottbot.com/test/s62130" target="_blank">Unbalancing Strike</a> reducing the defense of the tank by 200 for 15 sec (100 for 6 seconds in normal). He will also casts <a href="http://thottbot.com/test/s62279" target="_blank">Lightning Charge</a> every 15 seconds, just like with Grull this effect will stack and Thorim will deal more and more damage during the fight. (Thanks to <a href="http://wraith-guild.net/" target="_blank">Wraith</a> for the help on the description of the fight) <div align="center"><a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/thorim.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/thorim_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> Hodir <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>HP - 35,699,200 (Heroic Mode)</li><li>Normal melee attacks for 25k damage on a well-geared warrior</li><li>8 Adds trapped in blocks of ice are around him, you can break the blocks (40,000 HP) to have them help you. They will randomly drop Toasty Fires throughout the fight. </li><li>His aura called Biting Cold is using the same mechanics as Intense Cold during the fight against Keristrasza, it stacks up and damage increase over time. Moving will reset the stack. (This is also affected by the Toasty Fire, see below)</li><li>Hodir casts "Flash Freeze" (9 seconds cast time), a spell that freezes the entire raid in blocks of ice.  </li><li>He will randomly spawn Icicles, they will create patch of ices on the ground as they drop. Standing on the ice when Hodir casts Flash Freeze prevents from being encased in a block of ice.</li><li>You can also prevent Biting Cold and Freeze by staying next to a Toasty Fire in the room, however it will be removed by Flash Freeze. Warms nearby friendly creatures, preventing the effects of Freeze and Biting Cold, and increasing Spirit by 4.  Toasty fire can be extinguished by falling ice or powerful frost magic.</li><li>After Flash Freeze, Hodir will gain "Frozen Blows" and deal 70% reduced physical damage but each attack deals 40,000 additional frost damage. </li></ul> <div align="center"><a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_194309.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_194309.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_195344.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_195344.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_195850.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_195850.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_195932.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_195932.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_195934.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_195934.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_195937.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_195937.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/WoWScrnShot_022609_200219.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/small/WoWScrnShot_022609_200219.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> </div> PTR Patch Notes Update Some updates have been made to the <a href="http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8136495630" target="_blank">official patch notes</a>. Below are the additions to the original notes I posted 4 days ago. <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from: Blizzard (<a href="http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8136495630" target="_blank" style="color: white;">Source</a>)</div><div class="blizzquote">General <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>New high-resolution player textures for Northrend armor sets have been added. Players can enable this feature by setting Player Textures to High in the Effects Panel of the Video Options. </li><li>Players can now return items purchased with an alternate currency back to the original vendor within 2 hours of the purchase time for the original cost of the item. Stackable items (such as Frozen Orbs and gems) and charged items that can be purchased with an alternate currency are not eligible. </li><li>Confirmation boxes have been added to purchases over 150 gold.</li><li>Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ideathknights.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Death Knight (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=650" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?deathknight" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) Blood <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Abomination's Might: This effect can now also be caused by Death Strike. </li></ul> Frost <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li><del>Black Ice now grants 2/4/6/8/10% Shadow damage in addition to the Frost damage.</del></li><li><del>Glacier Rot: Third rank added, and damage bonus increased to 7/13/20. Moved to position currently occupied by Endless Winter.</del></li><li><del>Chillblains: Now a 15/30/50% movement speed debuff (up from 30%). Moved to position currently occupied by Glacier Rot.</del></li><li><del>Endless Winter: Moved to position currently occupied by Chillblains.</del></li><li><del>Frost Aura: Replaced with Improved Frost Presence. Allows the deathknight to keep the health bonus of Frost Presence in any presence, and decreases magic damage taken while in Frost Presence.</del></li></ul> Unholy <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li><del>Epidemic: Epidemic now has 3 ranks (adding an additional 3 sec of disease duration). Magic Suppression is 3 ranks (down from 5) for 2/4/6% magic damage reduction.</del></li><li>Magic Suppression: Now has 3 ranks (down from 5) for 2/4/6% magic damage reduction. </li><li>New talent: Improved Death Strike. Increases Death Strike damage by 10/20. </li><li>Outbreak: Increases the damage of Plague Strike by 15/30/45% and Scourge Strike by 10/20/30%. Scourge Strike: Damage increased. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/idruids.gif" alt="" border="0" /> Druid (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=700" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid" target="_blank">Talent + Glyph Calc.</a>) <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Lifebloom: Mana cost of all ranks doubled. When Lifebloom blooms or is dispelled, it now refunds half the base mana cost of the spell per application of Lifebloom, and the heal effect is multiplied by the number of applications. </li><li>Maim: This ability is now considered a stun, and shares a diminish category with all other stuns. It no longer has a chance to break from the target taking damage. Duration lowered to 1 sec. per combo point. </li></ul> Feral <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Heart of the Wild: Stamina bonus changed to 2/4/6/8/10%. </li></ul> Restoration <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Intensity: Now grants 17/33/50% of mana regeneration while casting. </li></ul> <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/ihunters.gif" alt="" border="0" /> [color=#ABD4...</div></div></div>

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