PTR Testing, Compiled Loot List, Blue Posts

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Also today - Arena Season 5 drawing to an end

Update 00:55 CET - Boots of Hasty Revival (Leather - Spell), Saronite Shiv (Dagger - Phys. DPS), Signet of the Earth Shaker (Ring - Tank)
Update 00:45 CET - More loot - Twisted Visage (Staff - Phys. DPS), Clockwork Legplates (Plate - Phys. DPS), Horologist's Wristguards (Plate - Spell MP5), Quartz Studded Harness (Mail - Spell MP5), Sigil of the Vengeful Heart (Class - Sigil)
Update 00:30 CET - XT-002 Deconstructor went down a couple of times and was hotfixed shortly after it seems ... Here is some loot:
Quartz Crystal Wand (Wand - Spell Hit), Shoulderplates of the Deconstructor (Plate - Tank), Brasslined Boots (Mail - Phys. DPS), Mantle of Wavering Calm (Cloth - Spell), Sash of Rash Temperament (Cloth - Spell Hit), Crazed Construct Ring (Ring - Melee DPS), Thunderfall Totem (Class - Totem)

IRC - If you've got any additional info on loot or want to discuss the streams tonight join us on

[url="irc://irc.quakenet.org/mmo-champion"][b]irc.quakenet.org #mmo-champion[/b][/url]

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3.1.0 PTR (North America) - XT-002 Deconstructor Testing
The testing of XT-002 Deconstructor is now active on US PTRs. Stay tuned for more info.

Boss Abilities (From StratFu)
Health - 18M (25-Man) / 5M (10-Man)
Hard Mode - Kill the heart. Heartbreak - The heart of the XT-002 Deconstructor has been severed, removing the combat limitations of the XT-002 Deconstructor. Damage increased by 25%. Health increased by 25%.
Abilities

• Gravity Bomb: Charges the target with dark energy (the gravity well), causing them to explode and pull in nearby allies after 9 sec. This sucks people in, so stay away from others! It creates Gravity Well on the player: Pulls enemies within 10 yards into a gravity well, dealing 19000 to 21000 damage.
• Tympanic Tantrum: Deals 10% damage every 1 sec for 12 sec. Nearby enemies are also dazed for the duraion. (like VR's earthquake)
• Light Bomb: Charges the target with divine energy, causing them to sear nearby allies for 9 sec. Targetted attack, does 2k-3k damage on nearby allies

He also spawn adds throughout the fight:

• XM-024 Pummeler, just melee. Arcing Smash (~2k), Trample and Uppercut, melee for 1.5k-2k on plate. Minimal dps.
• XE-321 Boombot, bombs the raid. Explode with a 12k-13k hit.
• XS-013 Scrapbot, which merge into him if they reach him ("XT-002 Deconstructor consumes a scrap bot to repair himself!"

3.1.0 PTR (Europe) - Razorscale Testing
The testing of Razorscale will begin on EU PTRs on Monday, March 9 at 19:00 CET. Stay tuned for more info.

Boss Abilities
Health - 12.55M (25-Man) / 3.9M (10-Man)

The boss was fairly easy because of a very high amount of bugs, most of the abilities didn't work as intended and pretty much all guilds killed Razorscale without too much problems.

Loot
Update 20:20 CET - More items from Ulduar, a lot of these have an ilvl 239 and might actually be from a test kill of Algalon the Observer, the hard-mode only boss of Ulduar.

• Sorthalis, Hammer of the Watchers (1H Mace - Tank)
• Greaves of the Stonewarder (Plate - Tank)
• Legplates of the Endless Void (Plate - Tank)
• Northern Barrier (Shield - Tank)
• Bronze Pendant of the Vanir (Neck - Tank)
• Handguards of Revitalization (Plate - Tank)
• Titanskin Cloak (Cloak - Tank)

Update 20:10 CET - Exclusive preview of a tier 8 set! The 10-Man Warrior tanking set! But for the moment it looks like it's the same stats as a T7 25 players set. Considering that the ilvl on it is higher they might be increased in the future. You can also check the Tier 8 Sets Model Preview for more screenshots.

Update 19:40 CET - Belt of the Fallen Wyrm (Mail - Spell), Bracers of the Broodmother (Cloth - Spell), Remorse (1H Sword - Phys. DPS), Razorscale Shoulderguards (Plate - Spell MP5), Sigil of Deflection (Class - Sigil), Drape of the Drakerider (Cloak - Melee DPS), Living Flame (Trinket - Spell DPS), Saronite Mesh Legguards (Mail - Phys. DPS)
Update 19:20 CET - Proto-Hide Leggings (Leather - Phys. DPS), Collar of the Wyrmhunter (Cloth - Spell Hit)
Update 19:10 CET - Razorscale died on PTRs, it seems that some of the items we digged yesterday were from Razorscale and not from the Flame Leviathan:
Guiding Star (1H Mace - Spell MP5), Shackles of the Odalisque (Cloth - Spell), Charred Saronite Greaves (Plate - Tank), Heart of Iron (Trinket - Tank), Veranus' Bane (Gun - Tank), Dragonslayer's Brace - (Plate - Tank)

These items also appeared on the PTRs but don't seem to be from Razorscale: Handguards of the Enclave (Plate - Tank)


Patch 3.1 - Raids & Dungeons Loot compiled list
This is the 2nd version of the list, this one include all the known items from Ulduar + the rewards from the Emblem of Conquests dropping from the 25-man version of the dungeon. If you've got any suggestion this might be the good time to post it in comment.

• All the models here are placeholders, for Ulduar weapon models please check this post
• Some of the items do not have their final stats yet and will just look like renamed Nax25 versions of the item. (Mostly trinkets and class items)

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<td width="30">[b]ilvl[/b]</td>
<td width="75">[b]Type[/b]</td>
<td width="75">[b]Spec[/b]</td>
<td width="75">[b]Slot[/b]</td>
<td width="250">[b]Item[/b]</td>
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<tr class="lootline1"><td>239</td><td>2H Swords</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/voldrethardarkbladeofoblivion.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Voldrethar, Dark Blade of Oblivion</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25-Hard)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>232</td><td>2H Swords</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_5.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Rune Edge</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>219</td><td>2H Maces</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironsoul.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Ironsoul</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>219</td><td>2H Axes</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/stormedge.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Stormedge</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>232</td><td>Polearm</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/lotrafenspearofthedamned2.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Lotrafen, Spear of the Damned</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>232</td><td>Staves</td><td>Spell</td><td>Two-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_6.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Rapture</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>232</td><td>1H Swords</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>One-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/malice.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Malice</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>219</td><td>1H Swords</td><td>Tank</td><td>One-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/stoneguard.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Stoneguard</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>232</td><td>1H Swords</td><td>Tank</td><td>One-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/titanguard.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Titanguard</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Fist Weap.</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Main Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/themasticator.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">The Masticator</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10-Hard)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>219</td><td>Fist Weap.</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Off Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/kineticripper.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Kinetic Ripper</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>232</td><td>Gun</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Ranged</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/giantsbane.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Giant's Bane</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>232</td><td>Gun</td><td>Tank</td><td>Ranged</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/veranusbane.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Veranus' Bane</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>232</td><td>Thrown</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Ranged</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/risingsun.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Rising Sun</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Off-Hand</td><td>Spell</td><td>Off-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironmender.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Ironmender</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>232</td><td>Off-Hand</td><td>Spell</td><td>Off-Hand</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/overchargedfuelrod.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Overcharged Fuel Rod</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Chest</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_2.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Steelbreaker's Embrace</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys .DPS</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_22.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Legplates of the Violet Champion</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Head</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironrivetedwarhelm.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Iron Riveted War Helm</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_6.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Belt of the Singing Blade</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>239</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_13.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Belt of Colossal Rage</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25-Hard)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>219</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/greavesofironintensity.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Greaves of Iron Intensity</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10-Hard)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/bootsoftheunderdweller.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Boots of the Underdweller</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/plansbattlelordsplateboots.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Plans: Battleord's Plate Boots</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_14.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Bladebreaker Gauntlets</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Wrist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/decimatorsarmguards.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Decimator's Armguards</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Spell</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/beltofclinginghope.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Belt of Clinging Hope</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/glovesofthepythonicguardian.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gloves of the Pythonic Guardian</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_24.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Legguards of the Peaceful Co...</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternplategirdleoftherighteous.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Plans: Girdle of the Righteous</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_8.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Girdle of Unyielding Trust</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_16.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gauntlets of Serene Blessing</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_23.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Wyrmguard Legplates</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/saroniteplatetlegguards.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Saronite Plated Legguards</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Head</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/helmofthefaceless.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Helm of the Faceless</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_7.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Shieldwarder Girdle</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/dragonslayersbrace.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Dragonslayer's Brace</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_15.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gauntlets of the Royal Watch</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Plate</td><td>Tank</td><td>Wrist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/mimironsinfernocouplings.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Mimiron's Inferno Couplings</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_25.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Leggings of the Tireless Sentry</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Shoulder</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_3.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Iron-studded Mantle</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Phys .DPS</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternbeltofdragons.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Belt of Dragons</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_9.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Belt of the Ardent Marksman</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/glovesofthefierybehemoth.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gloves of the Fiery Behemoth</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_17.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gloves of Unerring Aim</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/bootsoftheforgottendepths.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Boots of the Forgotten Depths</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_11.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Runeshaper's Gloves</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/leggingsofthestoneweaver.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Leggings of the Stoneweaver</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_26.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Leggings of the Weary Mystic</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Head</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/steamworkersgoggles.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Steamworker's Goggles</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_10.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Windchill Binding</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternlightninggroundedboots.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Lightning Grounded Boots</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Mail</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_18.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gloves of Augury</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_27.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Leggings of Wavering Shadow</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Shoulder</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/shoulderpadsofthemonolith.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Shoulderpads of the Monolith</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patterndeath-warmedbelt.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Death-Warmed Belt</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_11.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Belt of the Twilight Assassin</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_4.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Runed Ironhide Boots</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_19.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Gloves of the Blind Stalker</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Wrist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/mechanistsbindings.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Mechanist's Bindings</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Chest</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_9.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Vestments of the Sprouting Seed</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_28.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Wildstrider Legguards</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternbeltofarcticlife.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Belt of Arctic Life</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_12.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Belt of the Living Thicket</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternbootsofwintryendurance.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Boots of Wintry Endu...</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/gripsoftheunbroken.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Grips of the Unbroken</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Leather</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_20.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Grips of the Secret Grove</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Chest</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/robesoftheumbralbrute.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Robes of the Umbral Brut</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>213</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Chest</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_12.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Raiments of the Iron Council</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (10)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_29.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Legwraps of the Master Conjurer</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>32 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Shoulder</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/mantleoftheunknowing.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Mantle of the Unknowing</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_13.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Sash of Potent Incantations</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/embraceoftheleviathan.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Embrace of the Leviathan</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patterncordofthewhitedawn.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Cord of the White Dawn</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Feet</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternsaviorsslippers.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Savior's Slippers</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/handwrapsofplentifulrecovery.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Handwraps of Plentiful Recovery</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_21.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Touch of the Occult</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>23 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell</td><td>Hands</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/constructorshandwraps.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Constructor's Handwraps</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell Hit</td><td>Legs</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_10.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Overload Legwraps</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell Hit</td><td>Waist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/patternsashofancientpower.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Pattern: Sash of Ancient Power</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Cloth</td><td>Spell Hit</td><td>Wrist</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/bracersofunleashedmagic.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Bracers of Unleashed Magic</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Cloak</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Back</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_1.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Drape of the Lithe</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Finger</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/strengthoftheautomaton.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Strength of the Automaton</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Finger</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/metallicloopofthesufferer.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Metallic Loop of the Sufferer</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Finger</td><td>Spell</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/glowingringofreclamation.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Glowing Ring of Reclamation</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Finger</td><td>Spell Hit</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ringofthevacanteye.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Ring of the Vacant Eye</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Finger</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_7.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Radiant Seal</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Finger</td><td>Tank</td><td>Finger</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/theleviathanscoil.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">The Leviathan's Coil</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Melee DPS</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/insurmontablefervor.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Insurmontable Fervor</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_2.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Broach of the Wailing Night</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>16 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Melee DPS</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_1.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Spiked Battleguard Choker</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>16 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Spell</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_4.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Evoker's Charm</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>16 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Spell</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/ironcouncil_9658_8.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Unblinking Eye</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Iron Council (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_5.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Frozen Tear of Elune</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>16 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Spell MP5</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/freyaschokerofwarding.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Freya's Choker of Warding</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Spell Hit</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquest_9658_3.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Shard of the Crystal Forest</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>16 x [url="http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=45624"][img]http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/emblemofconquesticon.jpg[/img][/url]</tr></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Neck</td><td>Tank</td><td>Neck</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/necklaceofunerringmettle.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Necklace of Unerring Mettle</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Trinket</td><td>Tanking</td><td>Trinket</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/thegeneralsheart.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">The General's Heart</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Trinket</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Trinket</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/wrathstone.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Wrathstone</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>239</td><td>Trinket</td><td>Spell DPS</td><td>Trinket</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/flareoftheheavens.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Flare of the Heavens</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25-Hard)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Class</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Libram</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/libramofsacredshield.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Libram of Sacred Shield</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Class</td><td>Phys. DPS</td><td>Idol</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/idolofthecorruptor.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Idol of the Corruptor</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>General Vezax (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline1"><td>226</td><td>Class</td><td>Spell DPS</td><td>Idol</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/idolofthecryingwind.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Idol of the Crying Wind</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Kologarn (25)</td></tr>
<tr class="lootline2"><td>226</td><td>Class</td><td>Heal</td><td>Relic</td><td>[url="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/march/steamcallerstotem.jpg"][b]<font color="#A335EE">Steamcaller's Totem</font>[/b][/url]</td><td>Flame Leviathan (25)</td></tr>
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Ring of Valor Disabled until 3.1

Due to some recent issues we have disabled the Orgrimmar Arena, Ring of Valor, from both the Tournament and Live realms. We are working on resolving these issues and we plan to bring this arena back in the upcoming patch 3.1.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Blue posts

Dev Teams - Lead Designers
I am the lead systems designer. We have three lead designers. The other two are in charge of world design and content design. We all work together pretty closely.

The class and item designers are part of my team. However, our decision-making process is very, very collaborative and consensus-driven. We don't make any major changes unless the whole team is on board. Our decisions are also informed by input and collaboration with other designers and the rest of the WoW team. My job is not to force anyone to make certain decisions. I just try and keep us organized and on schedule and help maintain the overall vision for the game. Blizzard just doesn't operate with a great deal of hierarchy. We're a team and our folks are empowered to make decisions. (Source)

Tanking enchantments
We originally had two tanking enchants: the parry and stamina one. We pulled the stamina one (and let's not revisit that whole discussion please) but that means druids did get the shaft. The plan is to get a second tanking enchant in 3.1 but I am very hesistant to promise anything.

I don't know the Ulduar loot well enough (it's not all complete last I looked) so I don't know what the idols look like. I'm a little reluctant to spoil that loot too much in any case, though I know it's easy to find for those of you who don't mind the spoilers. (Source)

PvP - Getting rid of the RNG
We agree with this for the most part. We don't want to remove random numbers in PvP (even though I understand many players would, given the choice). An ability that hits 1% of the time for 20,000 damage on paper is perfectly balanced with an ability that hits 10% of the time for 2000 damage. However in PvP especially the first ability would be really frustrating for both the attacker and the victim. (Source)

Tanking in Ulduar
We have absolute targets for things in the game, not just relative targets. We don't nerf someone because they are better than other classes. We nerf them because they are too good. (This is more true for PvE than PvP; in PvP there is almost nothing to measure but relativity.)

Our encounters, especially in Ulduar, are supposed to be of a certain difficulty level. If we buffed all tanks then those encounters are too easy. We would then have to increase how hard all of those bosses hit, which probably also means changing dps and healing capabilities on the encounter. It probably also means changing gear, since for example one of the things we wanted to hit was how high DK avoidance could get already.

I think many of these discussions come down to "It sucks to get nerfed." Believe me, we know. Nerfing classes means there was a failure on our part. You should blame us, and certainly not other players who make decent posts or participate in PTR testing.

All tanking classes have cooldowns they can blow when big hits from the boss are coming. However, to be clear those hits are also supposed to be scary. It's a good time for healers or whoever to blow their cooldowns too to help the tank survive.

We still want the DKs to have a lot of cooldowns, and they still do. The problem was those cooldowns just made them too effective at tanking many of the big encounters in the game. We need to see what things look like with the changes we put in place and re-evaluate then.

Shield block is a lot more useful on bosses that hit quickly for smaller individual hits -- something like Prince in Karazhan. It just so happens that Saph, Malygos, Sarth and KT don't use that kind of mechanic. In an ideal world I suppose there could always be four equal bosses at the end of a tier, each one showcasing the tanking abilities of one of the classes. That really constrains our encounter design though, as well as suggesting to the community that what you are supposed to do is have all 4 tank classes available and swap in a specific one for each fight. No doubt some guilds who want world firsts will do that, but our design is that you need 2 to 3 tanks for an encounter and you have 4 classes from which to choose them.

We thought that DKs and druids made the Sartharion encounter too easy, and looking forward we saw encounters in Ulduar where we thought the same thing would happen. (Source)

Healing in Ulduar
We don't generally throw out raid damage so severe that you have to heal multiple targets within one GCD or risk losing them all. If you are finding that to be the case then it's possible your group is not sufficiently geared for the encounter. If players are dying a lot during Vortex, their health may just be too low. After the Vortex had ended, you should have plenty of time to heal someone, target someone else to heal them, etc.

We still intend for you to be able to take any 3 healers (it will probably be closer to 3 for Ulduar) in a 10 player group and be good to go. However, as you start to try hard modes there is going to be more pressure to have every player in the role that most emphasizes their strengths. You may want a mix of healers more than ever on those encounters. (Source)

Death Knight (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Howling Blast longer cooldown in 3.1
If it was completely a replacement for Obliterate, then there would be no point in having Obliterate for Frost DKs (and Unholy DKs already don't use it). A cooldown lets HB be a better button than Obliterate some of the time, but the rest of the time you'll still use Obliterate. (Source)

Change to abilities cooldown in 3.1
If DKs take too much damage now, we can fix that. If increasing cooldowns means they aren't fun any longer, then we can try and fix that too. But I hope you understand that we don't want to have an unbalanced class in any aspect of the game just because that makes it fun (for that class).

[...] Making DK cooldowns fun and meaningful is absolutely a priority. But having 4 viable tanking classes is also a priority. One of those things cannot just completely trump the other. We also have a slight concern that DK tanking was fun for some players not because of the mechanics but because it was overpowered.

Players who are making suggestions about how to keep DK tanking mechanics fun without being overpowered are making useful comments. Players who are just posting "the class is now gutted; I'm gonna reroll" are making the kind of comments I just skip over (and the mods tend to delete). (Source)

Unholy in 3.1
We don't want all DKs to be Unholy. Some of the initial predictions of Unholy dominance in 3.1 were made based on incorrect assumptions about how the new scaling worked. We have since toned down some of the huge hits done by Scourge Strike and Plague Strike and there will be more changes as we go along. (Source)

Shadow of Death removal
It was an unusual talent that kept causing problems. Every time we needed to change the way it worked usually required new code. It just got the point where we were spending too much time to fix one talent that was novel, but not really game changing. The class designers got together and voted just to put it out of its misery. (Source)

Druid (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Nourish
We're not trying to push druids into being Nourishbots. Druid hots continue to be very good. The only thing that has changed is we wanted to make it a little harder to sustain mana indefinitely while throwing out lots of hots.

Nourish is there because sometimes hots don't cut it. Sometimes you are healing a 5-man or healing a tank or another situation where the healing per second of the hots may not be sufficient.

So far on the PTR we have seen druids using Nourish when only the tank is taking damage, but we've seen them using all of their spells on normal raid encounters, and last I looked, the healing from Nourish was down below Rejuv, WG and LB. We'll continue to monitor the numbers coming in though. (Source)

Judgement of Justice vs. Druids
We are concerned about JoJ vs. druids. We have a change coming up (or maybe it's out already) that will improve the situation from the druid POV, but it isn't shifting breaking JoJ.

Are you talking about no 40 yard JoJs from holy paladins, or something else? The enlightened judgements nerf isnt on the PTR (I don't think...) but it is in your updated patchnotes.
Yes, that's it. We originally extended the range for Holy paladins so they could hang back to heal and still judge, but a 40 yard range JoJ is pretty brutal to druids. We think its is going to be a lot less of an issue when the paladin has to run up to snare you. This in turn should let druids run away and drink or heal. We don't think this change alone will provide the big buff Resto druids may be looking for. But we also think it will definitely be felt. (Source)

Faerie Fire duration increased to 5 minutes in 3.1
5 min PvE. 40 sec in PvP. I know these variable durations are getting pretty common. We just discussed trying to modify the tooltips so that they display both durations. (Source)

Lifebloom Nerf
1) A few players have suggested decreasing the duration of LB instead. This isn't something we are likely to do. Having LBs of 10 sec allows druids to spend GCDs on something other than just LB. It's not that we want you to only ever cast LB. We just want it to be mana intensive to do a lot of LBs while doing everything else. We were worried clever Resto druids would stretch out their mana by just focusing on LB rolling on multiple targets. On mana intensive fights, this would be the only way to play as Resto and possibly make the harder encounters easier than we intended. You should be able to heal without running OOM. If you get to a point where you have to heal a lot (i.e. there is A LOT of damage hitting the tank or the raid) then running OOM should be a risk. Make sense? In any case, we think the longer LBs is a good quality of life improvement and not something we are likely to tinker with at this point.

2) If you look at the parses for groups beating on the Patchwerk test boss in Ulduar then Nourish is a great deal of Resto healing. However, if you look at the parses of the actual boss encounters, you see things like Rejuv, then WG, then LB then Nourish. On fights with less area damage that will obviously be different. Furthermore, we still have some tuning to do and guilds still have some experimentation to do. In other words, I would not read too much into the numbers. But there are some numbers. (Source)

Hunter (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Changes to hunter mechanics in 3.0.x and 3.1
What is interesting about these "my class is such a roller coaster" responses is they tend to only happen with classes that are powerful. With classes or specs that are considered underpowered, the community tends to beg for any kind of change at all and will happily relearn all their buttons just because they really want to play that character.

I'm not trying to dismiss the OP's sentiment, because it's a totally valid way to feel IMO. I'm just pointing out that it sometimes gets used as justification for why we shouldn't nerf a class.

"You're making me relearn my class."
"It's not fun for me to play my class anymore."
"This change went against the design you said you had for us."
"This change goes against the class descriptions on the website."

Those are all valid points, but obviously we felt the change was necessary despite all of those points and they are rarely going to convince us to undo the changes. (Though we might try to address those concerns in other ways.)

I'll also throw out that the community tends to assume that 99% of the changes we make are for balance reasons. There are a lot of those, but we also make changes just because we don't like the way mechanics are working out. (Source)

Lack of talent points for pets
That's fair feedback. On the other hand, one of the problems we had with 51 BM before was that hunters could scoop up all of the "useful" talents without their extra 4 points. If we give away more talents for free, we risk ending up back in that situation again. (Source)

Mage (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Fiery Payback on PTR
Fiery Payback is still 2 ranks. The disarm is a passive ability. It isn't dependent on being near death. We are still messing with the duration, etc. (Source)

Paladin (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Paladins in WotLK
We are pretty happy with the paladin overhaul from Lich King. It is taking some time to polish all the changes both from a balance and gameplay perspective. We're not convinced every class in the game needs those kind of major changes. It is pretty typical to see players demanding overhauls or "rebuild the class from scratch" kind of posts, but we just disagree in most cases.

That is not to say that every class couldn't use some polish somewhere. We really don't think of "x class is finished" as a realistic goal. Like a kid with a rebuilt car, we're always going to be tweaking the engine to some extent. (Source)

Sacred Shield
Sacred Shield was possibly only a problem in PvP on the larger teams (or for rage generation, but we fixed that separately). It was really a PvE problem because the damage prevention was really starting to add up in Ulduar. We know this was supposed to be one of the answers for how paladins can "group heal." However, you shouldn't need to do a ton of group healing in raids, and in PvP or heroic dungeons, you should still have enough tools to manage: fast heals, the HL glyph, Beacon, etc.

The topic of whether Holy paladin healing is too simplistic is a good conversation to have, though probably beyond the scope of this thread. Some players like a play style where they don't have many different spells to weave together so we try to offer ways to play like that. What I mean is that there are players who like the Holy healing style as it is. We think we can improve it, as we think we can improve most aspects of the game, but we want to be careful to do so without ruining what it is they enjoy (or what makes the class distinct). (Source)

Priest (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Discipline in 3.1
We aren't trying to change Disc's PvE role as a MT healer that adds damage prevention to the priest's arsenal of healing spells. (Source)

Shaman (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Are you going to merge Healing and Mana totems?
Probably not. We have another idea for the mana totem. (Source)

Elemental Shamans in PvP
We are going to implement our Elemental PvP mechanic next build. I'm not sure it will solve every concern you have, but we think it's cool. (Source)

Frostbrand in 3.1
Our intent is still WF/FT in PvE. You can opt to use FB in PvP, especially with these changes. Shamans benefit a lot from being fully raid buffed since both melee and spellpower buffs and debuffs can help them. In PvP where you likely won't have so many buffs, you might not miss the damage as much and could use FB for its extra benefits.

The Flurry nerf was to lower Enhancement PvE damage, which was once again too high. (Source)

Warlock (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Unstable Affliction remains multi-target
The "good reason" in this case was we were actually debating making UA single target. I wasn't prepared to say anything until we were farther along with the debate and I could offer some decent reasons pro and con. If we decided not to make the change (which is what happened in this case) we didn't think it was worth freaking everyone out. Sometimes we talk about potential changes and sometimes we don't.

To be clear: We have decided to leave UA castable on multiple targets. The rank with a single target limit is a bug. It might be fixed in the current PTR build. (Source)

Chaos Bolt damage
We can take another look at Chaos Bolt damage. Long cooldown, channeled nukes can afford to do reasonable damage. I wouldn't expect us to double it or anything. (Source)

Warrior (Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Removing stances from the game
Like I said in another thread, we'll see how the modified stance penalties work out. From a high-level design view, we would love to get rid of them. From a more nuts and bolts standpoint, it might take reworking the numbers on a lot of abilities to get it there. We're just going to have to see how it goes. (Source)

Shattering Throw in PvE
To answer a question that has been posed several times, you can use Shattering Throw in PvE. The armor reduction will work on bosses. We erred on the side of making the cooldown and cast time conservative. If nothing explodes with the introduction of the new ability, we'll consider changing the numbers in the future or add appropriate glyphs or talents to do so. (Source)

Is the armor pen from shattering throw going to stack with sunders etc.? If not, just make it apply 5 sunders. It's an insignificant buff PvE wise.
It stacks with sunder. (Source)

Shattering Throw in PvP
I know some of you just pull the other stances off of your bar in PvP (figuratively anyway), but some warriors do shift to Battle Stance when dealing with highly armored opponents, and you might be even more likely to do so with the armor pen and introduction of Shattering Throw. It will either break the immunity or remove the armor, not both. (Source)

Heroic Throw
Heroic Throw is an important tool for tanks who are pulling. We couldn't pull it out of Defensive Stance, yet part of what we wanted to do with Shattering Throw was give you another situational reason to shift to Battle Stance. We also want to give ourselves plenty of room to adjust the cooldown and cast time of Shattering Throw, which again mucks up Heroic Throw's role as a pulling tool.

We would still like to add some additional functionality to Heroic Throw for dps warriors. The problem is all of the obvious choices, say a Disarm or Interrupt, are either useless or overpowered. We don't really think we need more caster hate in the game right now. (Source)

Stance and penalties
No other class has stances. We don't want warrior stances to be like DK presences for example. DKs aren't generally supposed to change their presence much. We want warriors to change stances (within reason. You don't need to point out that tanks stay in Defensive Stance nearly all of the time).

Part of the design of Berserker Stance is that it's a reckless stance. You do more damage and have access to some important abilities, but you also open yourself up to additional damage as well. We could, for example, change the crit bonus on Zerk to 10%, but we would offset that by lowering warrior damage -- we aren't just going to give warriors free damage unless we feel their damage is low, and for Fury warriors, we don't feel that way. (And let's please not turn this into another TG thread.)

Now as you can tell with the latest patch, we are trying to see if we can get rid of the stance penalties. But that does not mean getting rid of the stances, and that does not mean that shifting stance just becomes an extra button click you macro in to use the ability you want. For example, if you are considering going to Defensive because everyone is ganging up on you, that should be a decision not an instant reflex.

Similarly, rather than throwing up our hands and just letting warriors stay in Zerk all of the time for PvP, we are trying to create situations where going to Battle makes logical sense... but again, with a trade-off. (Source)

[...] Not that this is the tank forum, but it's a buff to Defensive Stance. Instead of doing 10% less damage you do 5% less damage.

This is an experiment. We do have some concern that for example warriors might just slip into Defensive Stance in PvP if they could do exactly the same damage (minus a few key abilities). But it the sun continues to rise in the morning after these changes have been tested for a little while, we might eventually pull the penalties completely. (This would be true for Berserker Stance as well.)

[...] Yeah, I was refering to turtling. We're fine with Defensive Stance being used to turtle in PvP. Perfect. But we want you to have to actually turtle when you do it, which means doing less damage. DKs for example give up say 15% damage to shift to Frost Presence. It is hard to equate that directly to the loss of certain abilities for the warrior.

I'm not saying you don't need Intercept, WW etc. in PvP. I'm saying that you're obviously willing to do without them for short periods of time when you are fighting defensively. Letting Defensive Stance do too much damage may tip that scale. We'll see. (Source)

Generating rage when hitting a damage absorbing shield
It is still in the plan. I doubt it is in the current build because it's a fairly technical change. (Source)

Comics
Dark Legacy #180 and Teh Gladiators #64 are out.

[Sonikk]

Yay at Ring of Valor disabled.. About time imo

[Simca]

3 Healers in a 10-man in Ulduar. About time.

[bbr]

I see zero rogue fixes/updates again ^.^

The faerie fire change for pve is nice for druids,, but what about rogues?
Our armor reduction ability is still costing us 5 combo points, which would rather be spent in actual damaging abilities.

Perhaps its time to put expose armor as a standalone ability?

[LavaDuck]

I lol'ed at DLC ;D

[Amgyn]

getting rid of warrior stances? what is blizzard thinking!

[bbr]

getting rid of warrior stances? what is blizzard thinking!

Deathknights have "stances" of a kind.
Paladins have "stances" of a kind.
Druids have forms..

I don't see the problem with warrior stances...

[Ikkatsu]

Great...

Still no balance druid changes.

[MuTe]

Deathknights have "stances" of a kind.
Paladins have "stances" of a kind.
Druids have forms..

I don't see the problem with warrior stances...

And Hunters have Aspects!

But the thing im worried about... Where the HECK are the Bows in WOTLK!? Seriously, all i see is guns, guns guns as ranged weapons. They look like shit, and as a Troll my Racial is worthless +1% crit on bows. The 1 bow thats from naxx 25 is even worse then the gun from naxx 10 wich im currently wielding.

Seriously, put some bows in game.. or make the Ranged Racials affect all ranged weapons. And the Bow from Arena.. 4200 arena points and a 1930 rating required for a piece of shit. Cry.

[Balbaroy]

[blizzquote="Bornakk;http://blue.mmo-champion.com/11/15443192248-ring-of-valor-disabled-until-31.html]We are working on resolving these issues and we plan to bring this arena back in the upcoming patch 3.1.[/blizzquote"]

No thanks.

[Langebrød]

Great...

Still no balance druid changes.

There was alot of balance changes last "blue-posts", do you expect to get ALOT every time?
There hasnt been a change on rogues since weeks, except small shit like glyphs and poisons.

[nemesisevil]

No stances in the future? Sounds good. All they are, are minor annoyances, they shut off access to certain abilities, lose us rage, slightly slow down our next attack and for what? A minor minor buff along with needless de-buffs.

[MuTe]

No stances in the future? Sounds good. All they are, are minor annoyances, they shut off access to certain abilities, lose us rage, slightly slow down our next attack and for what? A minor minor buff along with needless de-buffs.

Your right! And while they are at it, they should make Aspect of the Dragonhawk, Aspect of the Viper (without the 50% dmg decrease), Aspect of the Beast (useless), Aspect of the Wild (useless) Into 1 Aspect. And call it Aura of the Hunter.

Not gonna happen either, but we can dream cant we?

[ndrew]

3 Healers in a 10-man in Ulduar. About time.

He may say 3 healers now, but I can guarantee this will not be the case once people have gear on par with the instance.

[Aegos]

Elemental Shamans in PvP
We are going to implement our Elemental PvP mechanic next build. I'm not sure it will solve every concern you have, but we think it's cool. (Source)

I hope it's going to be awesome because we Elemental Shamans need something awesome and not some 2-3 minute cooldown bullcrap which I bet they'll give us. But I'll try and stay positive 8)

[Xhy720]

After looking through the loot list, I have come to two conclusions. One, Blizzard still can't itemize DPS plate, and two, Blizzard wants all plate-wearing DPS to compete with mail/leather DPS for their gear. Is it too much to ask for them to figure out how to make plate gear comparable to mail/leather equivalents?

[delage35]

Great...

Still no balance druid changes.

I wouldnt expect any: their DPS is competitive and they bring useful raid buffs. Keep qq-ing tho

[Nasok]

"There is no rogue problem" (c) Ghostcrawler

[delage35]

After looking through the loot list, I have come to two conclusions. One, Blizzard still can't itemize DPS plate, and two, Blizzard wants all plate-wearing DPS to compete with mail/leather DPS for their gear. Is it too much to ask for them to figure out how to make plate gear comparable to mail/leather equivalents?

If you can find mail/leather with Strength on it, good for you. Or maybe you think equiv AP is a good enough substitute... maybe for you, but not for most of the plate wearers I know. The only complaint I've had is that armor pen and haste eat into the item's budget too often for crappy gain. Wouldn't be problem if those stats had a bigger impact as they stacked up.

[Elementium]

DLC Just reminded me that dual specs will be another way of showing which players are kinda dumb.. "Hey why's your threat so high?" "Oh crap i'm in tank spec LOLLOL"