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rently not dropped anywhere emblems of heroism may become available through a daily quest in 3 3 but that s speculation on my part all of these options basically require a level 80 character in terms of non heirloom gear the jury is out with a smaller level cap increase my gut reaction to the announcement was that blizzard would go with a greatly diminished gear reset if any that would be good if you like to remain on top of the game for longer but bad if you re looking for solo content that actually challenges you perhaps this will be addressed on day 2 of blizzcon but it hasn t been touched so far my advice is not to change what you re doing because of the expansion if you re enjoying raiding and happen to collect upgrades go for it if you re enjoying 5 mans even though you re not getting upgrades go with that other mechanic changes among other things hunters are moving to an energy like focus stat and non consumable ammo warlock soul shards are getting replaced a wide variety of specialty stats on gear are getting streamlined or eliminated and various classes will presumably get various improvements to their quality of life then again there s always something a little bit better down the line even after the expansion what will i do overall i expect to take a worgen druid future flavor of the month i m sure and goblin hunter for at least a test drive through the new starting areas my old tauren warrior will get dusted off to see the rest of tbc and wrath from the horde side and possibly wintergrasp for a gun for the goblin my mage will work on the things he was going to work on anyway and my assorted alliance alts will probably gather dust for at least the next year overall it s possible that i will play less wow total between now and the expansion because i m waiting for changes i m not so nostalgic for the 40 s as to try and rush cheerydeth through to outland with a revamp looming and the coming addition of the dwarf shaman effectively guarantees that i will never spend significant amounts of time playing a space goat in the long term though the reduced time in present day azeroth with concrete plans for characters other than my main once the expansion hits may prove to be a blessing when i hit 85 within the expansion s first month it s not like i m hurting for other stuff to do in the mean time so i guess that s a good thing posted by green armadillo at 8 03 pm 6 comments labels alt philosophy cataclysm preview pvd wow thursday august 20 2009 what the cataclysm nay sayers underestimated by this time tomorrow the rumors about wow s cataclysm expansion will be settled once and for all on the blizzcon keynote stage this post in turn will either be one of the few things i predict that comes true or a requiem for an interesting idea that didn t get its chance after all having endorsed the rumor as soon as it leaked i m betting on the former at the risk of looking foolish if it turns out to be the latter on one level skeptics underestimated the stakes for mmo champion though i m sure they ve gotten a ton of traffic through all the links over the past week the site s reputation and credibility are worth far more traffic in the long run in a broader sense though people underestimated blizzard s willingness to venture out of the new continent and 10 new levels box i count myself among that number less than a year ago i didn t think that blizzard could find the time to do an old world azeroth revamp much of the reasoning behind my hypothetical expansion idea turns out to have been 100 correct instead of standing by it though i dismissed my own idea out of hand because there was no way for blizzard to deliver a significant old world revamp in addition to the usual amount of new content 10 new levels at a time when the top talent is moving on to mystery project 4 on this too i was correct i just couldn t think far enough out of the box to imagine that blizzard would choose to cut back on the requisite 10 additional levels in order to make the time to do the revamp cataclysm s target audience there is it turns out a market that is even more valuable than the players who will purchase each new expansion to see what the biggest production values in the business can bring to solo questing this time out even if they have no interest in the endgame wow s biggest potential growth market is in former players how many players decided they were tired of tedious travel and sparse quests in the 50 s how many players came for the solo content left when they met the group only endgame and have not seen a good reason to return since with both expansions saving all their best lore for elite endgame raids how many players simply used up the content that wow had to offer over the last nearly five years and would return for a spruced up trip down memory lane with some shiny new choices to play with blizzard is betting that this is the most underestimated market of all i won t be lining up to put my money against them posted by green armadillo at 10 39 pm 14 comments labels baseless speculation business models cataclysm preview wow wednesday august 19 2009 minutes 4 and 5 on the ptr s based on xtian s comment on my post from earlier i took the shadow priest for another spin this time making sure to focus on nuking instead of dot s this proved far more effective i m still less than fond of having a channeled spell as my bread and butter dps but at least i don t feel like i m doing it wrong anymore apparently that tasty passive mana and hp regen that my mage enjoys when a shadow priest joins the group is one of those perks that one saves for when one has a tank meanwhile what s my main again suggested that i try the talent that lengthens the stun duration on the cat s stealth opener by a second a single second is one of those things that sounds stupid in the abstract but in this case makes the difference between having the enemy come un stunned before or after you ve shredded its rear to mangled bits i still think that i m more interested in oomkin than the cat side of druidism a good thing since the combination i m describing isn t even available until level 50 but adding the stun talent might elevate the spec from don t bother to worth keeping on a dual spec slot druids are the only class that has separate resource bars a shaman can dual spec caster dps and melee dps but both sides use the same mana pool which will be emptied when you click the switch spec button by contrast a moonkin who runs totally out of mana 7 kills into a kill 10 rats quest can shift to kitty form switch to a feral spec you shift before respeccing because shifting costs mana which you would have to regen after you specced wait 5 seconds for their energy to regenerate and go throw in the utility of being able to go into stealth mode and this could be well worth the cost of dual speccing at level 40 even on a character that i m not intending to use for group content meanwhile jumping clicking storm crow form and instantly flying off is a very neat trick so is dying your hair and having your cat form change colors i can imagine clicking the barber button very frequently on the hypothetical worgen druid if this is the type of perk i can look forward to oh hai i changed colors posted by green armadillo at 11 57 pm 5 comments labels alt philosophy pve wow even more fun with wow ptr premades though blizzard may have helped spoil the expansion announcement by starting the 3 2 2 ptr s when they did the latest round of testing also offered an unusual opportunity as is customary the old 3 2 ptr was not wiped because this was not a major version update even better blizzard decided to refill the premade supply to get more players onto the ptr s as they go head to head with blizzcon and a relatively recent new patch on the live servers seven premades and three transfers of my own characters 80 page 70 pally 62 warrior later i ve suddenly got the chance to test drive high level characters from all ten of wow s classes since we re almost guaranteed to get new race class combos in the expansion whether or not it focuses on new races and an alt friendly revamp of old world azeroth this is an opportunity that i figured i should not pass up test driving a class in 3 minutes or less my testing session from two weeks ago spawned two separate followup discussions so it s probably only best for me to add some disclaimers up front if i do group content in wow it s almost certainly going to be on my main character my mage that gets me out of testing half a dozen trees that are dedicated for tanking or healing right off the bat also i m looking at solo content not sustained group dps so i have to worry about taking damage spell pushback etc all specs for today except for the warrior were tested on non elite icecrown undead using the gear the premades came with without socketing or adding additional enchants since that was time consuming and unnecessary i did not use consensus specs from anywhere instead making up my own choices based on my sometimes limited knowledge of what spells i thought i would be using solo overall i d guess that i spent 5 7 minutes on setup and 3 minutes actually killing mobs per character on to the latest rapid fire trials shadow priest woshane as in worgen shadowpriest i ve never fully understood this spec in solo combat i can see where you get an elegant rotation going on a raid mob that someone else is tanking with all your dots adding even more bonuses to your other spells solo with the premade i didn t really have enough time to actually use all of these spells but having so many dots to wait on means taking damage while i wait for the mob to die i m probably supposed to rely on pw s and or fearing and then mind flaying mobs but i couldn t figure out how to get this thing working in a way that didn t end up generating lots of downtime and or forcing me out of shadowform to heal after a couple of fights it felt like a drain tanking affliction warlock without the crucial draining part of the equation if someone can offer me some better insight into this class i d love to hear it cat focused feral druid nawofera as in nature worgen feral compared to my subtlety rogue i felt like i simply had fewer options it looks like i m intended to chain a stealth opener into mangle bonus to bleed effects and mangle into shred the backstab equivalent does more damage with the mangle buff up problem is i don t have any reliable way of getting behind the mob for the last step maybe it works if you use kitty hop and spam the button in mid leap or is this a group only combo regardless i was unexpectedly disappointed with this class i feel like i ve replaced the various stealth related tools on my rogue with the option of going out of cat to heal more versatile and zero downtime because the unused mana pool regenerates while you re a cat perhaps but less interesting balance druid same unexpectedly fun last time i tried this class there wasn t really a good niche for starfire in combat so you d pull with it root moonfire and spam wrath until the mob died or escaped the root nowadays both spells are usable nigh uninterruptable with talents glyphs and there s a talent specifically to encourage players to switch back and forth all that feels like it s enough to make the spec stand on its own feet solo at which point the ability to shift out into healing or flight forms is a nice bonus one other thing was that the tree feels very crowded between pushback resistance enhancements to the class debuffs new spells and general spell power boosts this was probably the only tree i ve looked at where i would even consider something really lopsided like spending 65 points in a single tree i guess that raiders avoid the problem by skipping the pushback related stuff combat rogue gobsneak goblin sneak since i picked the horde premade here i m sure the sustained dps is great but it feels well less subtle than subtlety also and this was an issue with the cat as well i m not as fond of energy as a mechanic in a toe to toe fight when i get into a fight i want to be pushing buttons not waiting for my energy to regenerate so i can push buttons i should probably try assassination instead to see if i like it better subtlety rogue same this was a very quick test drive to see what lies ahead the increased focus on stealth and piling on the combo points makes this build feel distinct from other melee specs i open with four combo points via premeditation ambush unleash a massive combo attack a few seconds later and then it s time to mop up what s left of the foe shadow dance is a ton of fun though i had a ton of trouble attempting to configre the separate action bar kidney shot stun followed by a pair of shadow dance ambush crits is absolutely nuts again i ll try assassination later but i doubt it will dethrone this spec from my rogue anytime soon fury warrior greenraven level 62 live character also a brief test drive to see how the class plays now with whirlwind berserker stance and titan s grip it s a cuisinart of doom i should probably give arms a try as well but i ve always disliked that spec because of the potential to go rage starved on a string of misses when single wielding a 2 handed weapon see previous comments about wanting to push buttons in fights rather than waiting for the opportunity to get to push buttons this character may get dusted off on the live servers just so i can see the rest of the horde content e g the thrall questline in nagrand which might get removed by plot advancement unholy blood death knight cheerydethfo as in the fourth having played the original cheerydeth to level 80 during the wrath beta this was mostly a drive by to visit my old favorite spec a 34 blood 37 unholy hybrid with the self healing corpse worms from the blood tree and the permanent ghoul minion third disease debuff and bone armor out of unholy this combination has actually gotten better since they scrapped the talent that turns the dk into a ghoul on death and added a pet buff that heals the ghoul incidentally counteracting the life draining drawback of hysteria from the blood tree i guess that unholy blight was probably better when it was a fourth disease but it s not horrible as a bonus effect on death coil and i don t really miss the flappy gargoyle much anyway i m sure it s terrible for group dps but it s a ton of fun for solo content with good dps and massive self healing beast mastery hunter worgenseeker this thing took like 3 times as long to set up because i also had to manage a pet i decided to take the spirit beast that blizzard helpfully put in the premade s stables for a spin along with a bunch of points in bm and aimed shot plus go for the throat out of marksman in the past my complaint about hunters and locks was that after having played a mage being a ranged dps class with a pet tanking for you felt like letting an npc do all of the actually hard dangerous work i don t know if 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