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Cat Druid, Beginner's Guide, Raiding, Warrior Tanking Guide, Blue Posts, Daily Blink 

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Boubouille
Published on 2011-01-05 12:17 PM

Guides Contest - Feral Druid, Beginner's Guide, Introduction Raiding, Warrior Tanking
It's time for one of the last updates! Tomorrow I will release the remaining guides and open the guides forum to the public and let you go through the 400 submissions, prizes will be sent the day after if everything goes as planned.












New Mobile Armory Features
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
We've just released a free update for the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory. The noteworthy additions include:


  • Support for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, including new items, goblin and worgen races, and new race/class combinations.
  • An updated look: the Mobile Armory has been reskinned to match the new World of Warcraft community site.
  • Various UI improvements, including enhanced readability and streamlined character switching.

The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory App is available from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. For more information on the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory, visit our Mobile Armory page.

iPhone and iPod touch are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Dungeon Finder and Gear Detection
We would love to implement better ways for Dungeon Finder to detect if players know what they're doing in dungeons beyond just the gear they've accumulated. We have some long-term design goals in mind for this we're not quite prepared to share this early on though. (Source)

Why did we die?
One flaw with the current system, is if players fail in a pick-up group, they aren't told why they failed. People then tend to play the blame game, often directing malice at the healer(s).

So while I'm speaking more about class roles, I think the idea still lends itself to your question. It'd be helpful to get more information than just through trial and error. Groups could benefit if they knew they didn't wipe because the healer didn't manage mana well enough, but because the DPS wasn't high enough, or boss adds weren't properly rounded up, etc. (Source)

The Daily Blink - Overqualified
TheDailyBlink did another funny, and I decided that I like funny!

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Tol Barad Honor Change + Bridge Exploit, Jan 3 Hotfixes 

by
Boubouille
Published on 2011-01-03 10:35 PM

Update - Added Cataclysm Hotfixes - Updated Jan. 3 at the bottom of the post, keeping the Tol Barad announcement on top a little more because of how ridiculously important it is.

Tol Barad Honor Change + Bridge Exploit
The good old days are over, sorry guys!
Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker)
As you’re probably aware by now, an update was applied to Tol Barad shortly before the holidays which granted the attacking side 1800 Honor Points for a victory. While the goal with that change was to provide more incentive for the attacking forces to claim victory, it ultimately led to an undermining of the spirit of competition in Tol Barad. We’ve just applied a hotfix which has lowered the attacking faction’s gain to 360 Honor Points for a victory. The defending faction will still earn 180 Honor Points for a victory.

We appreciate all of your feedback regarding this change. We'll continue working to make Tol Barad a fun and engaging PvP environment.

Whats the word on the bridge exploit?
We're working on a fix for this right now.

Update Cataclysm Hotfixes - Updated Jan. 3
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
Here you will find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the release of patch 4.0.3a and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. While many have already been deployed on all realms, some may not be implemented until the next time your realm is restarted. We will continue to update this thread in the days ahead as additional hotfixes are applied.

January 3
Mage (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • Flame Orb and Frostfire Orb no longer break any version of Polymorph.

Paladin (Forums / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
  • Righteous Fury is now unable to be dispelled.
  • The Strength bonus from the Retribution version of Guardian of Ancient Kings now applies its bonus based on total Strength instead of just base Strength.

Dungeons & Raids
Bastion of Twilight
  • It was sometimes possible for Arion to instantly Chain Lightning the targets affected by Lightning Rod, with no time for them to react. This has been corrected.
  • If one of the three most distant targets from Ignacious was 20 or fewer yards away and Ignacious picked that target for Inferno Leap, the spell would fail entirely, but the cooldown would be consumed. Inferno Leap can now be cast on players 20 yards or fewer away from Ignacious.
  • The Elementium Monstrosity will now prefer ranged targets to melee targets with its Electrical Instability beams. If there are more beams active then there are ranged targets present, then the beams will start hitting melee targets.
  • Flame Destruction cast during the Cho'gall encounter now does approximately 30% more damage per stack on Heroic difficulty.

Blackwing Descent
  • Sonar Pulse is now spawned on top of Atramedes' current location and will spawn regardless of where Atramedes is tanked. In addition, Sonar Pulse now idles for 1 second after being cast before they move away from their spawn location.
  • It is no longer possible to use immunities to reset a player's sound bar while fighting Atramedes.
  • Atramedes' Sonic Breath now properly ignores line of sight.
  • Spirit of Ironstar's Shield of Light was taking too long to break and now absorbs less damage.

Deadmines
  • Divine Shield prevents all damage from the Sparks in the Mechanical Nightmare.
  • The Foe Reaper 5000 will not cast Harvest on players more than 70 yards away.

Grim Batol
  • Trogg Dwellers which cannot be reached by players via legitimate means no longer award experience or drop loot if killed.

Lost City of the Tol'vir
  • Lockmaw's Frenzied Crocolisks have learned how to swim! In addition, Vicious Poison was doing too much damage and has been reduced slightly.

Throne of the Four Winds
  • Players now receive credit for the achievements Heroic: Conclave of Wind or Throne of the Four Winds if they are dead when the encounter is defeated.
  • It is no longer possible to fully resist Wind Burst from Al'Akir, avoiding all damage and knockback.
  • Al'Akir's Static Shock has been changed from a damage-over-time spell with interrupts on ticks (10-second cooldown), to a direct-damage interrupt spell (5-second cooldown).

Items
  • Bloodthirsty and Vicious Gladiator's Chain Gauntlets had incorrect bonuses attached. Their bonuses now correctly reduce the cooldowns on regular traps and launched traps by 2 seconds.
  • Bloodied Wyrmhide Gloves no longer have any expertise rating on them, and now grant Spirit instead.

Professions
Archaeology
  • Select Archaeology nodes and dig sites have been updated to ensure the Map listings are correct and the nodes properly spawn within the dig sites.

Cooking
  • The cooking daily quest Chef's Awards no longer have a limit to how many players can hold at one time. Please note that the user interface will still say a maximum of 10 Chef's Award currency can be possessed until a client-side patch can be applied, but players can accrue more than 10.

Tailoring
  • Tailors with 400 skill or higher should now receive additional cloth drops 50% of the time from anything that drops cloth, up from 25%.

PvP
  • Baradin Guards now correctly attack Horde players which enter their aggro radius or attack them.
  • Tol Barad now awards 360 Honor Points for winning as the attacking faction, down from 1800. Further details can be found on our forums.
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Ascendant Council First Kill, Archaeology, Addon, Restoration Shaman Guide 

by
Boubouille
Published on 2011-01-03 12:28 PM

Ascendant Council Heroic World First Kill by Paragon
Another day, another kill by Paragon who was the first guild to defeat the Ascendant Council of the Twilight Bastion in the world. Congratulations to them!

The second day of year 2011 brought us Ascendant Council 25-man heroic mode kill. This was one of the fights we were most looking forward to after beta testing. It was a huge letdown for some, but others enjoyed it. Somewhat bittersweet.

Also, a big thank you for the melee DPS'ers who play in the guild. They had to pass up spots again for alts, simply because the encounter design is incredibly punishing for any melee. It's a pretty glaring oversight when bringing in more than one or two of them results in ridiculous increases in damage taken in the last phase due to non-stop chaining chain lightning. Dropping out melee characters in favor of ranged ones has been a recurring theme throughout this whole raiding tier, but we hope that it's over now with only the end bosses and Sinestra left.

Here's to hoping next tier of raiding won't favor ranged by design. Maybe even go wild and give some incentive to bring in melee, too. (Paragon.fi)



Guides Contest - Archaeology, WoW Addon, Guides, Restoration Shaman
Time for one of the last updates of the Guides Contest winner! I will probably re-open the guides forum tomorrow and let everyone access the 400 submissions I received over the last week of December.











The MMO Report - Best Bloopers of 2010
It's monday, and I decided that I still like the MMO Report in 2011.



Comics
Dark Legacy Comic #270 and Teh Gladiators #198 + #199 are out!
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Battlemaster Achievement, Frost Mage and Cataclysm Heroic Guides 

by
Boubouille
Published on 2011-01-02 01:33 PM

Update - Oops, forgot Valiona/Theralion's first kill.

Valiona / Theralion Heroic World First Kill by Paragon
Paragon was the first guild in the world to defeat Valiona and Theralion in the Bastion of Twilight. Congratulations to them!



Contest Guides - Battlemaster, Frost Mage, Cataclysm Heroics
Today we have another update of the contest winning guides!







The Brewmasters Guide to Murdering Certain Individuals


Intro
Temple Guardian Anhuur #1
Temple Guardian Anhuur #2

Lockmaw #1
Lockmaw #2
Lockmaw #3

General Umbriss #1
General Umbriss #2
General Umbriss #3

Ozruk #1
Ozruk #2



Christmas Guide to Looking Good!
Let's end today's news with another submission, the Christmas Guide to Looking Good! by Thlop!
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Happy New Year!, Glory of the Cataclysm Hero Guide, Shadow Priest/Arms Warrior Guide 

by
Boubouille
Published on 2011-01-01 11:03 AM

Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone! 2011 should get interesting very soon with a minor class balancing patch incoming in the next few weeks (see Upcoming Class Changes) and probably patch 4.1 following a few weeks later.

For the moment, I'm sure most of you still have to level/gear up and try to see most of the content available in the expansion and you probably still have a few days without work to succeed.

Contest Guides - Glory of the Cataclysm Hero, Shadow Priest, Arms Warrior PvE
Another wave of guides is being released today!










Contest Runner Up - Magm...awwwwwwwwwwww
I wasn't kidding when I said that being original could make you win something in the contest, ikki42's entry was very surprising and proves that you can make anything cute, even Magmaw.

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