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Azel

17/11/2008, 13:30

The release of Wrath of the Lich King is now behind us ! It means a few things for this site : <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Over the next few days, I'll deploy the missing content pages for Wrath of the Lich King, there are a few interesting things I didn't have the time to finalize but I'm sure you'll be happy to see some of them.</li><li>I will eventually start answering my mails again, I apologize to anyone who mailed me in the last few weeks and didn't get an answer but the expansion really took way too much time and I eventually forgot to answer to a lot of people</li><li>I will probably start talking about recruitment again, the pre-WotLK beta recruitment wasn't really succesful and I'm still looking for people to update the site/moderate the forums. (Don't start spamming my mailbox now, a post will be made later)</li></ul> Death Knight first level 80 It took some time to figure out who was first and who wasn't, but it looks like <a href="http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mazrigos&n=Dessembrae" target="_blank">Dessembrae</a> from <a href="http://www.eternalcorpsecouncil.com/" target="_blank">Eternal Corpse Council</a> (EU-Mazrigos) was the first Death Knight to reach level 80 in the world on November 15 at 19:00 CEST ! Congratulations to him. <div align="center"><a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/november/dessembrae80.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/november/dessembrae80_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> According to the reports, <a href="http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tichondrius&n=Essay" target="_blank">Essay</a> (US-Tichondrius) was the first death knight to reach level 80 in the United States a few hours later, at 10:00PM server time. <div align="center"><a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/november/essay_80_dk.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/november/essay_80_dk_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> Congratulations to both players ! Wrath of the Lich King digital upgrade now available If you didn't have the time to buy a key for Wrath of the Lich King, you might be happy to know that the <a href="https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/wrath-direct-online-upgrade.html" target="_blank">Wrath of the Lich King Direct Online Upgrade</a> is now available on the US official site. I'm not really sure about the european one and would be happy to hear from people who know about it in comments. <div align="center"><a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/november/digitalupgrade.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/november/digitalupgrade_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> Blue posts It's not like there is a lot of activity lately because developpers are obviously super-busy now that the game is live but there is a bunch of free realm transfers and a few other things. <div class="blizzquotewrap"><div class="blizzquoteinner"><div class="blizzquoteheader">Quote from Blizzard staff</div><div class="blizzquote">Collector's Edition Pet It is an account-bound item you can send in the mail to any of your characters on that account. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/6848296620-question-abt-collectors-edition-ingame-pet.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) "Breadcrumbs" quests These quests are considered "breadcrumbs", Honker... burger. So if you've already been to Stars' Rest in Dragonblight and taken Courier Lanson's quest to fly to Wintergarde the Private Casey quest will no longer be available. We do not count breadcrumb quests toward zone achievements FYI. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/14/12661300614-random-quests-not-showing-up-on-questgivers.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Respawn rates We're hotfixing respawn rates that we deem problematic as we find them, folks. Sorry for the inconvenience. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/14/12661300520-waiting-for-respawns-is-not-epic.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) WotLK Account / TBC Client Yes, you can play with a Burning Crusade account on a Wrath of the Lich King client. But, you cannot play a Wrath of the Lich King enabled account on a Burning Crusade client. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/12662130632-question.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Where did the developers go <img src="http://www.mmo-champion.com/Smileys/classic/huh.gif" alt="Huh" border="0" />? The game just shipped. We've been a little busy. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/12661602417-where-did-gc-go.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) DPS of Healing specs 1) Our goal was never to make all specs exceptional at dps. We did want to improve the dps of all the healing specs though. 2) We do think Holy paladin dps is too low. 3) Resto shammy and druid probably aren't that great either. 4) We do have plans to improve these, but we don't think your dps is so awful that you will have difficulty leveling. Certain classes and specs have always excelled at leveling, which means others are going to be slower. If your leveling rate is too low for your comfort, you can respec. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/12661297282-gc--you-really-did-it-holy-paladin-dps.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/druid.jpg" 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 Calc. (9095)</a>) Upcoming feral tanking itemization changes I have made so many Feral threads that I actually chilled on it a little because there were so many cries of favoritism. But I think on reflection, and as this thread suggests, I can't win on that regard so I might as well just reply to whatever threads I want to. If your Ulduar gear has more armor on it than your Naxx gear (and it does), then it scales. You still need rings, necks and trinkets with tanking stats on them. You are just free now to look at other things beyond just the bonus armor value (which is still useful BTW). Your Dodge diminishes, but it diminishes slower than warrior Dodge, since it's all you have. You get a huge benefit to Stamina (around 50%), so it scales very well. We're not that worried with what Feral tanking stats will be in later raid content, but as always, if one class ends up outstripping the others, we'll compensate for it. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/26/12666299730-cry-more--response.html" target="_blank">Source</a>) Swipe One quick question. I'm sure you've seen all the threads-- do you still believe bears are adequate AE tanks? Can you please answer our concerns with swipe's limitations and thorns' lack of scaling? Thorns really isn't designed to be something like Damage Shield. That is an avenue to explore if bears started to fall behind for any reason. I don't personally have any difficulty using Swipe (and I've tried all four AE abilities). It requires slightly more positioning to use, but not so much that I really fear that bears won't be brought on raids. Although I understand why Ferals like to downplay it, warriors do have concerns that bears will be more desired because of heals, Innervate and Rebirth. It's going to be difficult to really make everything identical, and that's not really the goal. (<a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12666299730&sid=1&pageNo=1#10" target="_blank">Source</a>) <img src="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/hunter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> Hunter (<a href="http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620" target="_blank">Skills List</a> / <a href="http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter" target="_blank">Talent Calc. (9095)</a>) Hunters and PvP <ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li>Do we think hunters were underpowered in the previous Arena seasons? Yes.</li><li>Do we think they will continue to be underpowered? We don't know yet.</li><li>ZOMG didn't the beta prove that hunters are still underpowered? This requires more explanation. PvP relationships are notoriously difficult to theorycraft. Mostly it just takes a lot of games. While we had some talented players in beta, it's still a very small sample size. Nobody was playing with their "real" character. Few players went through the effort to gear up (meaning enchant, gem and try out options) the way they will on Live. The balance in beta was changing very rapidly, including many bug fixes. We did give hunters some new abilities, some of them potent, and we did change several other aspects of combat that will affect balance. Hunter dps is by most accounts on the top of the charts in PvE, so clearly the problem is more complex than just buffing dps. We also realize that PvP balance can change over time without us doing anything? How can that be? Well, players experiment and adapt. New strategies and counters arise. Now that isn't an excuse for us to never address balance problems, but it is an acknowledgement that balance is dynamic, not static, even without our involvement.</li><li>Will we take steps to adjust hunters if they continue to be weak in Arenas? Yes. This is absolutely a concern of ours. To some extent my reputation is on the line here because I keep trying to assure players that we will make adjustments, and I know you'll throw it back in my face if we don't deliver. The game has only been out for a few days though, so it's just premature to make sweeping changes yet. I realize some knowledgeable hunters are convinced the changes we made were not enough. At the end of the day though, it is us, not the players, who need to make decisions about game design. We will always listen to your feedback when making our decisions though. (<a href="http://blue.mmo-champion.com/28/12661298386-hunters-will-be-fine-in-arena--80.html" target="_blank">Source</a>)</li></ul> [img]http://static....</div></div></div>

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