WoW News: Battlegrounds to Award Arena Points in Patch 3.3
November 4, 2009
Yes… you heard right…
Over on the official World of Warcraft forum, Blizzard has announced level 71-80 daily battleground quests will now award 25 arena points as well as honor points.
Don’t believe me?
See for yourself on the 3.3 PTR Patch Notes (Updated 11/03/09).
I must admit I am a fan of this having just started arena… We have an active 2v2 team, our 3v3 is getting there but 5v5 is just not happening. At least this way I’ll be able to get some arena points to make up for the lack of 5v5 action.
Unfortunately for me, I’m on a PvE server where Horde seem to enjoy going around in one massive group, ganking one or two allies whilst thinking “wooooooah we’re pawning”, before wondering how the hell we lost.
Does this mean Battlegrounds won’t seem like a waste of time now? Perhaps now they’ll be more competitive?
I hope so.
What’s your Battlegroup like? How do you feel about getting arena points from the daily quests?
WoW News: Weekly Raid Quests?
November 2, 2009
We’ve known for some time now Blizzard will be upgrading the daily heroic dungeon quests and all the raids to drop Emblems of Triumph instead of Conquest.
Well, now they’ve gone a step further…
In a bid not to let the older raid content go to waste when they open up the Icecrown Citadel, Blizzard are also bringing in weekly raid quests.
Of course, things are always subject to change but at the moment it looks like the raid quest rewards will be 5 Emblems of Frost and 5 Emblems of Triumph.
If you don’t believe me here’s a snapshot courtesy of World of Raids…
To complete the quest it looks like you can do either the 10-man or 25-man raid.
I’m all for this! I must admit I’m struggling to get motivated to run any raids at the moment with the exception of Crusader’s Coliseum – I’m still after that Death’s Choice trinket everyone wants in ToC-25 and of course I’m looking to pick up what upgrades I can with the heroic stuff.
What about the daily dungeon quests?
Meh! To be perfectly honest I don’t bother with them now. I’m sick of them! Of course I’ll have a go if we’re gearing up some guildies or perhaps a quick run through The Violet Hold.
With the new weekly raid quests I’ll certainly be doing these if it means getting my grubby little hands on some of those new shiny Emblems of Frost.
So there you go… Good news for those of you newer to the game (or alts) and in need of gearing up and good news for all.
What do YOU think?
WoW News: Race Change Now Live in US and EU!
October 28, 2009
What??! You can now change your race?
Yes you can!
Blizzard have announced the new World of Warcraft race changing services are now live.
There are some basic rules though which does mean, unfortunately, you still cannot play a Tauren Rogue. Of course this means lots of you will have questions… But WAIT!… Before you fire away, go take a look at the official FAQs:
Cataclysm Races: What about Goblins & Worgen?
Unfortunately “details are not available at this time” as to whether you’ll be able to select the new Cataclysm races once they’re available in game. I’m guessing this will happen at a later date after the dust has settled from the release. However, that’s a long way away so let’s not get into that now.
Are you thinking of changing your race? To what and why?
WoW News: Will of The Forsaken Nerf in Patch 3.3
October 28, 2009
It’s true I’m afraid and sad news for Undead Rogues…
Will of The Forsaken will share a 45-second cooldown with similar effects, including trinkets like Medallion of the Horde and Titan-Forged Rune of Determination, making it similar to Every Man for Himself… But…
The Human racial “removes ALL movement impairing effects which cause loss of control of your character”. Whilst Every Man for Himself has always shared a cooldown with other similar effects, Will of The Forsaken only removes any charm, fear and sleep effects.
I wonder if Blizzard have opened a “can of worms” with this one. Are they going to balance this change by nerfing Every Man for Himself too?
WoW News: T10 Armor Set from Emblems and T10.5 from Tokens?
October 23, 2009
Well, well, well… What have we here?
In a Q&A session Blizzard has revealed T10 and T10.5 armor set pieces will be available from a mixture of Emblems of Frost and Tokens.
- T10 armor set pieces will be available from Emblems of Frost similar to the T9 set and Emblems of Triumph.
- T10.5 will only be available from Tokens from the 25-man raid similar to the T8 Tokens from Ulduar.
Here’s the actual quote from Aratil:
“With T10, are we going to see tokens like in Ulduar? or like Crusaders’ Coliseum? CC style had every class and spec rolling on same thing?
With T10 we’re going to see a hybrid. The Tier 10 items (the ones with item levels you’d find in the 10-player raid) will be purchased with Emblems of Frost.
The Tier-10.5 items (the ones with item levels you’d find in the 25-player raid) will be obtained by getting a token (one that is specific to 3 or 4 classes, much like the Ulduar tokens) and using it to upgrade the Tier-10 item that was purchased with Emblems of Frost.”
This is one way of dealing with the ”everyone wants the Trophies of the Crusade” issue we have with ToTC 25-man. Sounds like a good idea to me.
So it looks like we will simply pick up the Tier-10 gear from Emblems to get into Icecrown 25-man. Once in Icecrown we’ll pick up Tokens (and no Emblems) to upgrade our set to the 25-man level armor. This would be very nice… It would certainly save us having to farm loads of Emblems.
If only they thought of this with the T9 and T9.5 armor sets!
As far as I can see this is the only drawback going down the T9 armor set and upgrading to T9.5 route:
You’ve farmed 160 Emblems of Triumph to get your T9 armor to get into 25-man raids (assuming you get the cheapest 4 pieces in order to get the set bonus).
You get into Trials of the Crusade 25-mans and pick up Trophies of the Crusade. Now you have to farm another 240 Emblems in order to upgrade to the T9.5 set.
What if you had 4 pieces of T9 and only had to use the Trophy to upgrade it to the T9.5 set? Although you wouldn’t need Emblems anymore you would still be running the 25-man raid anyhow for the other items (weapons, belt, boots, etc).
What do YOU think?
p.p.s. The Rogue T10 set stats have just been revealed (on 12th November 2009). Go check it out.
On WoW.com this week I was dissapointed when I read Blizzard are planning on making Emblems of Triumph the new Emblems of Conquest.
Meh! Meh! MEH! I suppose it was only to be expected.
Here’s the quote from Bornakk:
“The current plan is to make Emblems of Triumph the “base” of emblems so everything that drops Emblems of Conquest would be changed to Triumph and then the new raid content would drop the new highest emblem along with things like the heroic daily and such.”
Why is this Emblem of Triumph Farm-Fest different?
My problem with this is with EoC there is only a couple of Rogue Tier-8 items and a few accessories up for grabs. People still have to work on their gear if they really want to progress. With Emblems of Triumph you can get the FULL Tier 9 armor set.
Emblem of Conquest Rogue Gear
- Conqueror’s Terrorblade Helmet
- Conqueror’s Terrorblade Breastplate
- Broach of the Wailing Night
- Belt of the Twilight Assassin
- Leggings of Wavering Shadow
- Gloves of the Blind Stalker
Compare the number slots you can fill up from Emblems of Conquest (6) with Emblems of Triumph (8). Not to mention with Emblems of Triumph you can get a COMPLETE armor set with BOTH set bonuses:
Emblems of Triumph Rogue Gear
- Conqueror’s Garona’s Battlegear
- Mask of Lethal Intent
- Duskstalker Pauldrons
- Dexterous Brightstone Ring
- Mark of Supremacy
- Crimson Star
This will be welcome news for those who are still gearing up (or perhaps even levelling). Of course there are still lots of items you can’t get from Emblems of Triumph which you will need to work on before the next raid instance (i.e. Weapons, Boots, Wrist, Cloak, Neck, etc) so they’re not giving you everything.
What is the point for the rest of us working hard to gear up at the moment?
Well you’ll be getting the good stuff (iLevel 245 and 258) which means you’ll be fully geared and ready to enter the new Icecrown Citadel raid as soon as patch 3.3 hits rather than having to grind Emblems.
Thank f*** for that!
Blizzard has opened up end-game content so more people get the full ”World of Warcraft experience”. This is a good thing and no-one can argue with that.
BUT…
Rewards should be EARNED. Great gear comes from working at it; knowing your class/role, looking up and learning tactics, downing the bosses and clearing raids. NOT from over-geared players farming Heroic Dungeons every day. What kind of achievement is that?
What do YOU think?
