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Reminder - Mists of Pandaria Press Tour Next Week
We are getting closer to the March 13-15 Mists of Pandaria Press Tour which will bring even more new Mists of Pandaria information! The NDA on the info revealed during the tour lifts on March 19 and will hopefully followed by the Alpha/Beta test shortly after. You can still discuss the new expansion in our Mists of Pandaria General Discussions Forum and check out the Mists of Pandaria Blizzcon 2011 Summary for a recap of what we already know.

In any case, it's only 2 weeks before things get interesting again, stay tuned!


Statistics: Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury
Today we take a look at the rate at which people are acquiring Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury! The sample size was ~5.8 million level 85 characters with a total of ~8,400 that have the achievement. You can find an alternative form of the graph in the comments, broken down by class.

It's very interesting to see that even if you can't transmogrify legendary items, the announcement of Transmogrification at the end of August considerably increased the amount of people farming old raid instances such as Sunwell for gear.

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War College - Isle of Conquest
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The battlefields of World of Warcraft are littered with the bones of those who have become casualties in the ongoing conflict between the Horde and the Alliance. You do not need to become one of them. One of the keys to victory is knowledge, and that is where the World of Warcraft War College enters the picture. In these discussions between players, you can learn and share strategies with other players to improve your tactics and improve your odds of emerging victorious from the field of battle.

Are you a veteran Gladiator with countless victories tallied? Are you new to World of Warcraft and striving to improve your PvP skills? In this weekly feature, we invite players of all skill levels to ask questions, share tips and tactics, and join a conversation dedicated to surviving and thriving in World of Warcraft PvP.

This week, the topic of discussion is:
Isle of Conquest - Which strategies are most effective in Isle of Conquest for your faction? Which locations are most important? What tips, tricks and tactics have you discovered? What common mistakes have you witnessed?

Join the War College forum thread here.

The Daily Blink - World of Warcraft is Saving the World!
The Daily Blink explains why the recent subscriber losses are for the greater good.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Mists of Pandaria Press Tour Soon, Thori'dal Statistics, War College, The Daily Blink started by chaud View original post
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  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    I really hope this press tour won't cater to the adolescent creeps that have a problem with how beautiful a lot of the surroundings in MoP are...We've had demons, we've had undeads...I wouldn't mind having war where at least SOME areas can remain intact and beautiful and peaceful.
  1. mmoc8d1df16656's Avatar
    I played WoW for 6 years, until I became smart enough to know to quit!(oh yeah, I went there)
  1. mmoc1d1ec1edc2's Avatar
    MoP is a total joke, I'm done giving feedback, they say "we listen", that's all they can do. They say theses words because it's their fucking job to keep it subbed.Rogues are getting completly demolished, and I dont care how much damage they going to do, they are demolishing that class. Shuriken ? Great idea, so creative ? It was pretty much the only new ability of Burning crusade, Aka Deadly throw (which they are removing! it was baseline now its only a IF-you-get-it, thats called one step forward 2 backward), we remove deadly throw we give you shuriken, cheer up! The 75 talent line is complety useless, I mean no fun, no graphics, nothing, this is PASSIVE, forget it. So we are down with 5 talents instead of 6. That's some serious stuff to wet your pants. The 15 one being 20% speed in stealth, does that even count ? the 30 one, are basicly stuff we had ALL and now we have to choose. So same here one step forward 2 backwards. Same for 60, they take 2 abilities off, and we choose one (that WE HAD ALRDY).Do I need to draw a picture to tell you that your 90 rogue get raped by a 85 rogue at equal gear, stats ? It's like 85 rogues are using a golden dagger, and 90 rogues are going to use a wooden spoon ?Oh btw I forgot to say that they nerf base Ambush damage by about 20%, they remove Opportunity, Shadow Step and Improved Ambush. Wow I would even be surprised that this does more damage than sinister strike. Worse according to what we know so far, all 3 specs will hit the same with ambush, so this is no longer a sub flavor. To be fucking honest, is there any fucking flavor left to any of theses 3 specs ? ok so assass will probably stay poisons oriented, then what ? what is sub ? backstab ? that looks like sinister strike now except you have to hit from behind? is that a joke?Take your 85 rogue, remove all of your abilities and flavor, and you have your newly shiny packaged 90 rogues. 1337. Blizzard's brain is fuming for inputing that incredible work.So stop with your MoP "TOUR", I don't give a damn. Seeing what they have done between Blizzcon, and now, "shuriken". Right, I go chills, probably got hit by one.
  1. ANewStart's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jinna View Post
    I played WoW for 6 years, until I became smart enough to know to quit!(oh yeah, I went there)
    The smart players played until the end of ulduar, it's just 10.2 million zombies left now.
  1. mmoc38db56fadf's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ANewStart View Post
    The smart players played until the end of ulduar, it's just 10.2 million zombies left now.
    Nah, the smart players started playing on vanilla, left somewhere in the middle of TBC to play other MMORPGS, missed WotlK and then came again just before Cataclysm. Because that's why I did and so it can be extrapolated to other people and used to judge them.
  1. Joán's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Napoleon7 View Post
    [Moronic rant]
    I guess you played the internal alpha and found out how rogues will play at 90. Oh wait...

    You have absolutely no idea how anything will be balanced at level 90 end game and it seems like you're just going down the line of awesome and flavored talents just saying "SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, THIS IS SHIT" because you're already determined to hate it.

    If you want to hate pandas, go right ahead, but don't try to disguise it as some sort of analysis of game mechanics it's 100% impossible to know anything about at this stage.

    Personally, I think it looks like rogues will get significantly greater variety and versatility, especially in pvp. But as opposed to you I realize that I know absolutely nothing about how it will actually play at 90.
  1. mmoc668a1715ee's Avatar
    I do not think much of the necessity for Daily Blink to once again follow Blizzard's route and be a huge downer on Alliance ... "Pwning Alliance" ... seriously, Horde need to stop being warmongers, and get with a programme of PEACE. Or, just like RL, they will continue their Hitler programme and wipe out humanity altogether. All they seem to think is destroy destroy destroy ... Blizzard keeps throwing everything good at Horde, and nothing at Alliance.
  1. Farora's Avatar
    If wowprogress was accurate in that time, I was the first warrior in the world with that bow. /flex
  1. Thulvaso's Avatar
    I really cannot wait until this press tour, would love to get some new information about.. anything !
  1. Hengril's Avatar
    Nice daily blink !
  1. ziggler's Avatar
    Couple statistic's i would like to see, dunno if they are even possible: - Arena rating of players with current legendary weapons - Some kind of "number of honor kills" statistic
  1. quras's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mvallas View Post
    I'm going to call it right now that they're going to open up the press tour with something out of a dark horror film - just to offset the whole Panda-backlash they've been getting.

    I'm totally expecting an image of a boss on the level of a gigantic flaming skull constructed from rotting pandaren corpses who bleed orphan blood out if its eye sockets. :P
    I second that.

    The garbage we have seen and the the polar opposite blizzard has stated will come into clear vision with this press tour.

    I feel blizzard will do their best up-play the so called "war".
  1. mmoce8c391acaa's Avatar
    I am a warlock in possession of Thori'dal, but i dont have the FoS.
    I want to protest this injustice.
  1. Dasn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Napoleon7 View Post
    MoP is a total joke, I'm done giving feedback, they say "we listen", that's all they can do. They say theses words because it's their fucking job to keep it subbed.Rogues are getting completly demolished, and I dont care how much damage they going to do, they are demolishing that class. Shuriken ? Great idea, so creative ? It was pretty much the only new ability of Burning crusade, Aka Deadly throw (which they are removing! it was baseline now its only a IF-you-get-it, thats called one step forward 2 backward), we remove deadly throw we give you shuriken, cheer up! The 75 talent line is complety useless, I mean no fun, no graphics, nothing, this is PASSIVE, forget it. So we are down with 5 talents instead of 6. That's some serious stuff to wet your pants. The 15 one being 20% speed in stealth, does that even count ? the 30 one, are basicly stuff we had ALL and now we have to choose. So same here one step forward 2 backwards. Same for 60, they take 2 abilities off, and we choose one (that WE HAD ALRDY).Do I need to draw a picture to tell you that your 90 rogue get raped by a 85 rogue at equal gear, stats ? It's like 85 rogues are using a golden dagger, and 90 rogues are going to use a wooden spoon ?Oh btw I forgot to say that they nerf base Ambush damage by about 20%, they remove Opportunity, Shadow Step and Improved Ambush. Wow I would even be surprised that this does more damage than sinister strike. Worse according to what we know so far, all 3 specs will hit the same with ambush, so this is no longer a sub flavor. To be fucking honest, is there any fucking flavor left to any of theses 3 specs ? ok so assass will probably stay poisons oriented, then what ? what is sub ? backstab ? that looks like sinister strike now except you have to hit from behind? is that a joke?Take your 85 rogue, remove all of your abilities and flavor, and you have your newly shiny packaged 90 rogues. 1337. Blizzard's brain is fuming for inputing that incredible work.So stop with your MoP "TOUR", I don't give a damn. Seeing what they have done between Blizzcon, and now, "shuriken". Right, I go chills, probably got hit by one.
    wow this guy is mad as hell
  1. mmoce8c391acaa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dasn View Post
    wow this guy is mad as hell
    Rogues arent used to getting the nerfbat like Warlocks have.
    Rogues have been continously overpowered since vanilla, and now they are getting spanked.
  1. Triggered Fridgekin's Avatar
    I would love to see a statistic with Atiesh, whether it's original owners or those who picked it up before WotLK.
  1. Slowpoke is a Gamer's Avatar
    I'll stick to my story. Press Release will bring new models, Pandaren female, and ALPHA testing. Beta will be in May.
  1. Shaede's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kath01 View Post
    Yes really fun seeing that scrub that just got his legendary at 85, 2 or 3manned an instance or whatever..
    I'd love have my smourne or other legendaries as mog but it's better that we can't.
    i bet they really wish they could make legendary's transmoggable...but because most of them are still able to be obtain, they probably won't ever. It really isn't fair for anyone who got the legendary back when it was new (even if it was just luck of the drop) because people can still go back and get them today. Even with the argument that well so and so only got it back then because it was a lucky drop...at least they were in a proper raid and the content was still somewhat challenging at the time. Now a days you can take 1 or 2, maybe a couple more 85s and annihilate the raids just to see a drop.
  1. mmoc2edb3b06a7's Avatar
    yeah i was one of the first 1000 huntards xD
  1. huldu's Avatar
    Who cares, really. If people go back doing old, useless, dungeons/raids whatever, big deal. Seems blizzard found a way to recycle old content and keep people playing after all, without doing anything. I don't care about achievements, mounts, companions and fluff like that. But most of you do and the likes of you make blizzard happy. To me it's just another boring waste of time for things that won't matter when the game goes down the gutter or you switch to another. Right, whatever, cool story bro, gg.

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