This IS Super Tuesday

Kenzi November 4 2008 10:15 am 8 Comments

Today has a ton of things going on. Mainly, all gaming aside, If you live in the US, are of age to do so, and are registered, GO VOTE! Doesn’t matter who you vote for, but voting is one of the biggest powers you have as an American, don’t waste it! You cant use Wow as an excuse to not vote becuase the servers are down!

Beta is over!

Crygil
We would like to thank everyone who has participated in the Wrath of the Lich King beta test. We greatly appreciate all of the feedback and you have given us during this critical phase of World of Warcraft’s development. In preparation for the launch of the game next Thursday, November 13, we will be bringing down our beta realms at 12:00 AM PST. Thanks again, and see you soon in Northrend!

3.0.3 is live today!

You can follow the link in the table to see the full notes.

PatchNotes
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.0.3
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

General

Removed “A Mask for All Occassions” as criteria for the “Hallowed Be thy Name” meta achievement.

Replenishment: Players below level 50 can now benefit from this effect.

Racial

Blood Fury: No longer triggers global cooldown.

Shadowmeld: The cooldown will now start on use instead of on break

Professions

The level requirements required to train gathering skills have been removed.

Alchemy

Reduced the effect of Elixir of Mongoose and Elixir of Major Agility.

Inscription

Glyph of Crusader Strike: Now reduces mana cost by 20% instead of increase damage on stunned and incapacitated targets.

Glyph of Flame Shock: Now extends duration by 6 sec and prevents Flame Shock from being consumed by Lava Burst.

Glyph of Lava: Glyph of Earth Elemental removed and replaced with this glyph. This glyph increases coefficient on Lava Burst by 0.1.

Glyph of Mind Flay: Now sets snare to 10% instead of removing it.

Glyph of Rejuvenation: Now works correctly when the target is not self.

Glyph of Shiv: Replaced with Glyph of Vigor, which increases maximum energy by an additional 10 for those with the Vigor talent.

Glyph of Shadow: Glyph of Mind Soothe removed and replaced with this glyph. This glyph increases spell power by 10% of spirit for 10 sec after critting while in Shadowform.

Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain: Increases damage done by Mind Flay when SW:P is present by 10%.

Glyph of Sinister Strike: Chance increased to 50%.

Glyph of Souls no longer removes soul shard cost. It instead reduces the mana cost of your Ritual of Souls spell by 70%.

Glyph of Spirit of Redemption: Tooltip corrected to 4 sec. extra when the glyph triggers.

Glyph of Strength of Earth: Replaced with Glyph of Lava Lash which increases the bonus from having Flametongue Weapon by 10%.

Glyph of Trueshot Aura: Now increases Aimed Shot crit chance instead of increasing attack power bonus.

Glyph of Totem of Wrath: Replaced with Glyph of Elemental Mastery, which decreases the cooldown on Elemental Mastery by 30 sec.

Items

The war against spelling errors continues: many items have had typos removed or their functionality clarified.

The item quality on several quest rewards was incorrect and has been altered.

The phoenix summoned by Ashes of Al’ar has had his flame trains restored.

Guardian’s Band of Subjugation now correctly grants universal haste.

Girdle of the Warrior Magi now has a socket bonus.

Some one-hand spell power weapons are now main hand only.

Heart of the Dragon should now provide a consistent amount of Ranged Attack Power.

Loatheb’s Shadow should now provide a consistent amount of Ranged Attack Power.

Spirit-World Glass now correctly has a cooldown.

Discerning Eye of the Besat procs should now be more obvious.

Focusing Lenses now have a cooldown.

The Horseman’s Reings should again function in Dalaran.

Haute Club Membership Card no longer prompts players to open it.

The buff granted by Frenzyheart Insingia of Fury now has a correct tooltip.

Harness of Carnal Instinct no longer has bonus armor.

Boots of the Protector have been brought in line with protection paladin itemization changes.

A tootip error in the Glyph of Spint has been corrected.

Grilled Sculpin now correctly grants Ranged Attack Power.

Libram of Souls Redeemed should now only affect Holy Light.

Legacy items that had both melee and spell critical strike rating have been integrated to the unified rating.

Held in hand books created by Inscription are now Bind on Equip rather than Bind on Pickup.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that was affecting terrain rendering on GeForce 3 and 4 Ti cards. Those that added the command Set fixedfunction 1 to their config.wtf file should remove it to avoid a decrease in performance.

Glyph of Rupture: The tooltip has been corrected.

Hunter: Ferocious Inspiration will now apply raid-wide, as intended.

Hunter Pets

Sonic Blast (Bat): Will no longer ignore LoS.

Bad Attitude (Croc): Will no longer ignore the Longevity buff.

Thunderstomp (Gorilla): Will no longer have a physical coefficient instead of a magical one.

Gore (Bore): Fixed an issue where a wrong value was being applied.

Savage Rend: Corrected typos in the tooltip.

Mage: Burning Determination will now work properly.

Mage: Living Bomb’s “explosion effect” will now be properly classified.

Priest: Holy Reach (Rank 2) will now increase the radius of Divine Hymn properly.

Priest: Inner Focus will now properly increase the critical strike chance of the talent Penance.

Shaman: Totem of Wrath tooltip updated to reflect that it affects all crit chance and indicate that it increases Spell Power (instead of just damage).

When you get done voting and you are waiting for the servers to come up, here are some videos you might enjoy:

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8 Comments »

Goodwin.de said:

yes the american election is so exciting. I want to watch tv tonight. And i hope your have learned about the last years :)

# 4 November 2008 at 10:19 am

Izbay said:

Gogo Libertarians! Bob Barr ftw!

# 4 November 2008 at 10:24 am

Kuorag said:

Holy crap, I LOVED that Ashbringer video.

# 4 November 2008 at 10:56 am

unknown said:

great movie! but is it just me noticing, that arthas get kicked in his ballz all the time?

he got pwned by Putress at the wrath gates and now he gets pwned again by Fordring, after that he will get pwned by the players.

poor arthas :)

# 4 November 2008 at 11:10 am

Dean said:

yea arthus got owned by Tirion Fordring because he was on holy ground and then at wrathgate becoz he was caught off gaurd and wasnt really pawned just caught off gaurd

Obama for President :)

# 4 November 2008 at 1:12 pm