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Patch 3.0.8 - More changes!
A few additional changes from the 3.0.8 PTRs

Reputation
You can now get full reputation gains from grey monsters, for exemple you will get 20 Reputation points for killing normal monsters while grinding your Timbermaw Hold reputation.

Item changes
I think I newsed a few of them in previous news, but most of them should be new.

• All the items sold by the Argent Quartermaster during the latest Scourge Invasion aren't disenchantable anymore.
• Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth can no longer be sold back to the NPCs for 5000 gold.
• Titansteel Helms now all have a blue and a meta gem socket. Some of them also got their stats changed/reduced. (Spiked Titansteel Helm, Tempered Titansteel Helm, Brilliant Titansteel Helm). As a reminder the spell power on Titansteel Guardian has been reduced from 490 to 457.
• Darkmoon Card: Death now gives critical strike rating instead of haste.
• Savage / Hateful / Deadly Gladiator's Dreadplate Gauntlets had their bonus to Strangulate cooldown removed. They now gives "Whenever you cast Chains of Ice, the Frost Rune used becomes a Death Rune when it activates".
• Je'Tze's Bell is now Bind When Equipped.
• All the Off-hand items crafted through Inscription had their Inscription level requirement removed. (Screenshot: Faces of Doom, Iron-bound Tome)
• [color=#0070DD]Amanitar Skullbow had its stats changed/fixed. (Screenshot)
• Handwraps of Preserved History had its stats considerably reduced. (Screenshot)
• Battlemap Hide Helm had its stats considerably reduced. (Screenshot)
• MOLL-E is now a rare item, lasts 10 minutes (up from 5), with a 8 hour cooldown (Down from 1 day). (Screenshot)
• Dragon's Eye and epic gems like Bold Dragon's Eye now only requires 350 Jewelcrafting. Down from 375. (Screenshot)
• Wintergrasp Mark of Honor is now stackable up to 1000.
• Ebonweave Robe, Moonshroud Robe and Spellweave Robe can now be sold to NPCs and/or disenchanted.
• Fire Seed and Fire Leaf both had their bonus removed. Fire Seed is now a gray item.

Blue posts

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Death Knight (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Tanking as frost
We adjusted Frost Presence to make up for the nerfs to Icebound Fortitude, Bone Shield and the change to bonus armor from jewelry etc. (Most raiding DK tanks were Unholy at the time, though they have begun to branch out a little.)

Both of those abilities are intended to be more like Shield Block or Last Stand, not something that is up all the time like Frost Presence itself. In most of the estimates I have seen that figure this is a huge nerf use pretty unrealistic estimates of how much Bone Shield is up (thinking their avoidance can make up for the charges). But we can check out numbers again. (Source)

Cooldown removed on Howling Blast in the latest PTR patch
It is an intended change. We're going to try it without a cooldown. (Source)

Druid (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Allow Wild Growth to count towards Nourish bonus
Yeah, there is a good chance we'll do this. (Source)

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Better scaling on hunter's pets to compensate the recent nerfs?
That scaling idea is interesting. We'll talk about it some more. (Source)

Comcast Players: Please Read
This issue is resolved according to Blizzard, but a lot of players are still experiencing problems. If you're one of them you might want to check the original post.

Originally Posted by Eyonix (Blue Tracker)

Update: We have received confirmation that the issues affecting Comcast player's connectivity to World of Warcraft are now resolved. If you are still having trouble playing World of Warcraft and are Comcast user, please visit our technical support forums and provide the information instructed in the appropriate Comcast sticky thread so that we can work to resolve any issues that may be outstanding.

We have been in communication with Comcast and several other internet backbone and service providers in efforts to isolate and bring to resolution the connectivity issues that have impacted the ability for some Comcast players to play World of Warcraft. As of this morning a 3rd party network who resides between Blizzard's network and Comcast's network informed us that they were experiencing an issue which may be the cause of problems that Comcast players have been experiencing.

We remain in contact with this provider and at this time do not have an ETA but this issue is being looked into by all parties involved. We will continue provide updates as they become available.

Dark Legacy Comic #170
Dark Legacy Comic #170 is out.

Isn't the full rep you get from Furbolgs 5 for normal and 15/20 for bosses?

I am going to be burning some rep. wonder if its just old rep tho?

They now gives "Whenever you cast Chains of Ice, the Frost Rune used becomes a Death Rune when it activates".

Awesome, i was just wondering like how can we get death knights to spam chains of ice even more? Now we have our answer!

Sigh @ the change to Spiked Titansteel Helm. I liked the pure stats which could affected by Kings, but now it's crit rating, less strength and a blue socket. I'll have to gem a +16 str just to get that back.

Wonder if they lowered the CD on the death card proc since they also changed it to crit

Originally Posted by Limelight

Sigh @ the change to Spiked Titansteel Helm. I liked the pure stats which could affected by Kings, but now it's crit rating, less strength and a blue socket. I'll have to gem a +16 str just to get that back.

Don't like this either one bit. Plus it costs me gold to get a new gem now sicne i doubt they will get me anything back.

Hunter:
Better scaling on hunter's pets to compensate the recent nerfs?
That scaling idea is interesting. We'll talk about it some more.

Your interpretation is off. The problem with pets is they scale too well -- raid-buffed, pets do amazing damage (while without buffs they can't hold aggro over their hunter). An example of how broken pet scaling is: Blessing of Might on a pet provides a bigger raid DPS increase than BoM on a Rogue.

The theory put forth by players is that if pets scaled more appropriately (in line with their hunter, for instance), they could be both useful solo/5manning and not overpowered in a full-raid-buff situation.

So now that the BS tanking helm got buffed, will the engineering tanking goggles get buffed as well or do we just get shafted as usual?

The engineering tanking helm you change already for 4 horsemen (10) or t7 ... stop QQ, plx. Lets them take care about much more serious problems ..

The Darkmoon Death card is damn good for affliction warlocks.
How many times does it proc?

Originally Posted by Cho

The engineering tanking helm you change already for 4 horsemen (10) or t7 ... stop QQ, plx. Lets them take care about much more serious problems ..

If you're an engineer, this is one of the most serious problems. First off, we shouldn't be replacing them with 4 horseman / T7. The only real reason they were better than the BS one was that the BS one lacked a meta socket; now that it has one, especially as a paladin tank to whom expertise (which is on the goggles) is near useless, I'm becoming seriously tempted to drop my goggles. That's just wrong.

I can't wait to buy my Je'Tze's Bell off the local Auction House for the low low price of 16.000 gold pieces.

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Originally Posted by LavaDuck

Wonder when Blizzard will fix the lags of Kazzak :/

Never. And now we got the queue's back for double the fun!

Originally Posted by Tsumaki

HAHAHA, nice joke, thx Blizzard to make only JC/Enchant as main professions and doesn't care about others. ~~

I'm Inscription/Herbalism and it was a pretty nice combo for PVE with shoulders enchant/Fire Seed, but now it sucks.

*/roll JC

Lawl, not like you're in a worse position than engineering. Btw Inscription still has ridiculous shoulder chants whereas I have to do the Sons of Hodir dailies for the next two weeks straight (already 4k into revered) to hit exalted to get a mediocre chant in comparison.
I got a tanking helm out of engineering. Not a great one but a decent entry level helmet. Well as soon as I replace it I may as well drop engineering. WTF is the point of a profession that doesn't have anything to offer anybody after they upgrade from the _ONE_ half decent item available. It's not like I can't get a motorcycle even if I managed to get the 13.5k needed to freaking make it cause it's boe.
Engineering literally has NOTHING to offer. Remember to take into account that ilvl 200 items are the equivalent of ilvl 115 items from Karazhan, so yes the helm is useful now but it's literally only as useful as long as Naxx and malygos are the top tier raid instance.
And with regards to upgrading the helm every new raid tier like the SW:P goggles those had a ridiculously low drop rate. Out of 25+ raids we never saw the pattern drop once, may as well just pick up the T8 helm and skip the upgrading goggles part if they do decide to include that (which I doubt)